Ice Planet Holiday

On a frozen alien world, a group of stranded human women live alongside the sa-khui, a tribe of blue-skinned hunters. The planet has no winter holidays, so Georgie and the other women decide to make some up for the home they have adopted.

Babies are born and gifts change hands. The settlement, usually busy with survival, takes on a rare note of cheer as the new customs begin to settle in.

At the centre sits a fresh romance. A human woman wants a change in her life, and an alien hunter is determined to keep her safe. The pairing carries on the found-family and fish-out-of-water threads of the wider series.

At roughly 25,000 words, the novella sits after book four of the Ice Planet Barbarians series and assumes the reader already knows the sa-khui and the human women who arrived before. Newcomers will find the first four books a better starting point.