A dangerous job. A mining disaster. A declaration of love that may have come too late.

Her job in a space station requires nerves of steel and a cold heart, but Lennina is paralyzed with fear for the life of her work partner each time there’s an earthquake on the planet’s surface. Her jealous boyfriend accuses her of having an affair with him and turns to violence when she denies it.

Bruised and broken, she ends the relationship. Then when a quake traps miners underground, she discovers her work partner means more to her than life itself.

As a new telepathic ability manifests itself, can Lennina use it to save the man she loves?

TOUCH OF LIGHTNINGis an exciting first book in the Lightning TouchSeriesthat will transport sci-fi and paranormal fans to a distant space station, filled with suspense, danger, and romance. If you like reading stories about low-spice relationships with a slow-burn forbidden love and sassy, witty banter, you’ll love this friends-to-lovers sci-fi adventure with a HEA.

© Susan McKenzie. All rights reserved.

Losing her love was the least of her troubles.

When an opportunity to study on another planet presents itself, Larissa Malinya is all too eager to escape the home that holds so many grief-filled memories.

Afraid of losing anyone else in her life, Larissa resists her growing attraction to Janssen, another botanist on the ship. But before she can reconcile her feelings, an emergency landing exposes them to a brazen attack.

Detained in a strange medical facility, Larissa unwittingly despairs that she’s the lone survivor. Heartache soon turns to horror when she discovers the scientists’ diabolical plan to create an army of super soldiers.

Can Larissa and her fellow captives hatch a plan to thwart their efforts? To avert disaster, she must make an impossible choice:

Will she choose love, or turn her back on it for survival and the greater good?

SHAKIRAN is an exciting companion novella in the Tamisan Series that will transport sci-fi and paranormal fans to a fascinating world on the outskirts of the Known Universe, filled with suspense, danger, and romance.

**Spoiler Alert** This book contains spoilers for the books in the TAMISAN Series. It can be read as a stand-alone, but it is HIGHLY recommended that you read TAMISAN and ENIGMA first!

Her DNA is a weapon, and some will stop at nothing to control it.

Tamisan thought her troubles were over after the defeat of Dr Starrick, the scientist who performed illegal experiments on her, transferring her consciousness into the body of a native of the planet Althar 3. But when Tamisan is set upon by someone she thought she could trust, she realizes that Starrick wasn’t the only one who had an interest in her new abilities.

When the attack leaves her an amnesiac and stranded in the jungle once again, Tamisan is found by the Waikari natives – only they think she’s Sifayah, the young woman whose body she now possesses. They want to help her remember, only the memories they hope to restore are of a life that Tamisan never lived.

With her attacker still at large, Tamisan must learn who she is all over again, and fast. She needs her abilities to defend herself from those who would use her, but without her memories, how will she tell who is friend and who is foe?

ENIGMA is an exciting second (and final) book in the Tamisan Series that will transport sci-fi and paranormal fans to a fascinating world on the outskirts of the Known Universe, filled with suspense, danger, and romance.

When an illegal experiment goes right, can Zhenna Rhodarma use her new psychic abilities to escape her captors?Zhenna Rhodarma has had her consciousness transferred into the body of a Waikari woman, a native of planet Althar 3. Her new form has two hearts, psychic abilities and can breathe underwater.When she looks in the mirror, she is greeted by a stranger. With the memories of Sifayah still present in her mind, she feels like two people.When she discovers that the scientist who performed the experiment isn't what he seems, Zhenna escapes into the wilds of Althar 3.Despite the help of a mysterious stranger who answers her telepathic calls for help, Zhenna is captured, then sold by slave traders. How can she slip away from her new master and stay ahead of the man who will stop at nothing to get his experiment back?

TAMISAN is an exciting first book in the Tamisan Series that will transport sci-fi and paranormal fans to a fascinating world on the outskirts of the Known Universe, filled with suspense, danger, and romance.

© 2024 Susan McKenzie. All rights reserved.

The idea for this story came from an image I downloaded from the internet of… an alien... well I can’t really say more without giving spoilers. You’ll have to find out by reading the whole story 😉This story was originally published in 2017 on Wattpad and it currently has 18.2K views. I love to offer this as a freebie so that new readers can check out my writing.

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“I could tell by the way he looked at me. He was afraid...”

Lilliana's interplanetary journey takes an unexpected turn when her ship crashes on a primitive planet.

Stranded and injured, she must keep a low profile to avoid alerting the locals, who are yet to discover space travel. Lilliana soon realizes that she can't survive on her own and desperately needs help until her brother arrives.

She is soon discovered, but the alien, Jarath, surprises her when he takes her in. Though they can only communicate through basic gestures, she feels drawn to him, but she is determined to never give her heart away again.

With others of Jarath's kind searching for her, the race is on. But who will get to her first - her brother, or the aliens out to do her harm?

Sparks fly in this romantic science fiction novelette.

© Susan McKenzie 2017. All rights reserved.

A girl who sees ghosts. A magic out of control. A group hellbent on destroying what they’re afraid of.

Maddie Johnson is sent to a mental institution because she talks to people who aren’t there. She insists that they’re ghosts. Just as she thinks she’s convinced the doctors that she is fine, a dark-haired ghost with dreamy brown eyes rushes in and ruins everything.

Instead of going home, she is sent to a halfway house that helps people with mental illness assimilate back into society. Problem is, one of the residents hates her and the house is haunted – oh, and the cute ghost has followed her. Maddie tries to get away, but then she hurts someone using magic she didn’t know she possessed. Now she has a new problem. She will have to learn to control her magic.

She discovers that the town has secrets; people are going missing. How far are people willing to go to destroy what they are afraid of? Maddie and her attractive-but-annoying spirit might just find out first-hand.

FIRE AND MAGICis an exciting first book in the JadoriSeriesthat will transport romantasy fans to a fascinating world that exists within our own, filled with suspense, danger, magic, ghosts, and romance.

© 2024 Susan McKenzie. All rights reserved.