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Native: A First Contact Novel

Book 1 of the Acoran Series

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Pub Date Sep 15 2025 | Archive Date Feb 05 2026


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Description

Sabotage stranded them.


Survival entangled them.


Love was never part of the plan.


Corporate sabotage turns a routine ecological survey into a life-or-death crisis, forcing two unlikely allies off the grid and into a brutal trek across unfamiliar wilderness. Cut off from support and hunted by forces far more powerful than they are, they must rely on competence, nerve, and each other to stay alive.


Then they encounter the one variable no one planned for: an intelligent native people—met by accident, in a colonial system already tense with power, politics, and competing agendas. What should have been a quiet crossing becomes a flashpoint with consequences far beyond their immediate survival.


As danger closes in, distrust gives way to hard-earned partnership…and to a bond shaped as much by restraint, choice, and principle as by attraction. Survival forges intimacy, but politics will decide the cost.


It’s “Oregon Trail” meets “Pride and Prejudice” on a science-fiction colonial planet—an action-packed sci-fi romance featuring slow-burn tension, corporate intrigue, accidental first contact, and character-driven stakes within a complex political landscape.


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Sabotage stranded them.


Survival entangled them.


Love was never part of the plan.


Corporate sabotage turns a routine ecological survey into a life-or-death crisis, forcing two unlikely allies off the...


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