Tendrils of the Heart

Ever had one of those days where you feel like nothing's going your way?

Like when your boyfriend (who you thought was one of the nice guys) dumps you … by text?

Then your landlady calls to tell you she's selling your rental?

Aria is having one of those days.

But when she sets out to find a new place and reset her priorities, she gets more than she bargained for. Instead of having the cozy cottage she's just found all to herself, she soon ends up face to—tentacle?—with a being who splashes down in her bathtub. (Fortunately, she's not in it at the time. Her lingerie, on the other hand…)

She's met plenty of rifters, people who came to Earth through a spacetime fissure years ago, but never one like this before. This one is pink, tentacled, and injured.

She's determined to help them. But will this mysterious and unusual being just be passing through, or is there the potential for something more?

This is a ~17k-word standalone cozy, spicy romance story about a curvy woman and a nonbinary tentacle being from another world. It contains explicit, consensual sex scenes (consentacles!) and is intended for a mature audience.