Home, Home on the Strange

Chapter 1 Planet WLN269

The United Civilizations of what humans call the Andromeda Galaxy had been fighting a war for centuries—one that had promise of ending soon…

until it didn’t. It took only one terrorist organization with a biological weapon to take out an entire civilization, leaving behind just one tiny mining colony on the edge of civilized space.

It could have been the end, were it not for one stubborn woman who refused to allow her brothers to succumb to a life without the possibility of ever finding someone to share their life with.

She was sure her mission to find sentient life would be a lifetime sort of thing—instead, twenty-four hours after launching her search, she found Earth—and accidentally paved the way for the galaxy’s most chaotic dating app.

With funding from Earth’s governments and a questionable sense of what humans find romantic, the Human Extraterrestrial Liaisons Program (H.E.L.P.) was launched.

Much to the alien’s surprise, Earth was full of women ready to leave their planet for anywhere but their current over-populated one. After all, Earth was home to a violent, backward sort of people who happened to have their own male loneliness epidemic—but it was one of their men’s own making…