Colony: Holiday Books in Order

Planning a space colony’s anniversary leads Rana to choose Thanksgiving without knowing where to find its traditional food. A grieving farmer determined to protect his new home becomes an unlikely partner, requiring them to overcome suspicion while organizing an unfamiliar celebration.

A nurse who dismissed tales of alien abduction wakes aboard an unfamiliar spacecraft and discovers she is pregnant. Determined not to accept her captivity quietly, Maia challenges the alien responsible while confronting a reality far stranger than the stories she once rejected.

Every New Year’s Eve, shy librarian Hestia returns to watch Vulcan perform at an exclusive colony club. This time she considers changing their familiar pattern, facing the question of whether she can turn a private hope into an action that alters their relationship.

Orel helps other people find romance but has little success in his own life. Covering a speed-dating event before Valentine’s Day gives the lonely Cupid another opportunity, though an apparent curse makes him uncertain whether he can find the happiness he arranges for others.

Facing declining ratings and the possible loss of his job, news anchor Prometheus devises an elaborate April Fool’s broadcast. His invented story promises to attract the whole colony, until discovering that it is true turns a publicity stunt into an unexpected problem.

A war widow moves to a space colony hoping to begin again by restoring extinct species. Her effort to build a future beyond grief changes abruptly when she discovers that the husband whose death shaped her decisions may still be alive.