Blog Tour: Yool: Holidate with an Alien by Tana Stone

Sharing my quarters is putting us both in serious danger of landing on the naughty list for life!

Yool: Holidate with an Alien, an all-new steamy, laugh-out-loud sci-fi romcom, from USA Today bestselling author Tana Stone, is now available!

This might not be so hard if I was the kind of girl who dated bad boys. I’m not. I’m a fighter pilot for the Valox resistance who can hold her own against any tough guy. It doesn’t hurt that I spent my childhood being carted around the galaxy and learning tricks from my card-shark father. Which is why when the silver-skinned alien eyes me like an easy mark in the grungy bar, I can’t resist taking him for all he’s worth.

But I don’t care about his money. I want him to pretend to be my boyfriend so one of the new mechanics at the base will stop hitting on me. The plan is foolproof. Yool will come to the holiday party as my date, convince everyone that I’m off-limits, and then hightail it out of my life.

What I didn’t bet on is the smuggler being so frustratingly charming that my fellow rebels are convinced he’s a candidate for the nice list. Sharing my quarters is putting us both in serious danger of landing on the naughty list for life!

When the base is sabotaged after Yool arrives and he’s blamed for it, I have to prove he’s innocent before the holly jolly holidays become a merry mess.

This sweet and steamy holiday tale is part of the Holidate With an Alien collection, a collaboration of authors telling holiday tales with a science fiction romance twist. Each book is a standalone, containing its own Happily Ever After. They can be read in any order.

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“Are you sure you didn’t do this on purpose?” Dani wrinkled her nose as we entered the bar.

Her reaction wasn’t unwarranted. The dingy place smelled of sour ale and even more pungent bodies. Our shoes stuck to the floor as we walked, and I was pretty sure the things I saw scuttling in the corners weren’t dust bunnies.

“Do what?” I assumed my most innocent facial expression, even though my lips quivered. “We needed to stop to refuel.”

Dani folded her arms across her chest, nearly hiding the Valox insignia emblazoned on one side as she eyed me with suspicion. “There are other outposts with refueling stations, Brooke.”

I twitched one shoulder and winked at her. “None of them have the same bootleg whiskey from Calderon.”

“Or card games running in the back room.”

I pressed a hand to my heart in mock surprise. “Are you implying that I rigged our journey, so we’d need to stop here and refuel, while I helped lighten the purses of these good folks?”

My copilot snorted a half laugh as we both surveyed the slack figures leaning against the long bar or precariously perched on rickety stools or sagging over empty tankards. Calling these drunks, down-on-their-luck mercenaries, and washed-up pirates ‘good folks’ was an undeserved kindness.

As much as I wanted to pretend that I didn’t know what Dani was implying, my fellow resistance pilot and closest friend was right about me. I’d known very well where our patrol route would take us. I’d known which bar we’d visit. I’d known what would happen as we walked through the door. My heart raced and my fingers buzzed with the possibility of holding well-worn cards in my hands, the paper soft at the edges and the colorful figures faded as they peered up at me. I’d known I wouldn’t be able to resist.”

“Sometimes I wonder why you joined the resistance when you love this so much.” Dani shook her head, but the expression on her face wasn’t judgmental. Almost everyone who’d ended up fighting with the Valox had some kind of dodgy past. Mine just happened to involve a father who’d taught me to play cards and win. The only differences between me and my low-life dad was that I didn’t cheat, and I would never have left my kid behind when the empire came looking.

“I can love cards and crushing the empire at the same time.” I patted my chest. “My heart is big enough for both.”

I didn’t have to state the obvious. I was an even better pilot than I was a card player, and that was saying something. I also detested the Zagrath, and I’d found a home with other renegades who felt that same way. Even though we’d all but destroyed the empire, with the help of the Vandar, there was evidence that it hadn’t been entirely eliminated, which was why we still flew patrols to look for signs of the enemy.

“Let’s hope this time we don’t get chased out by a Sporolian with a bad temper and a barbed tail.”

I laughed at the memory, although I agreed with Dani. That wasn’t the way I wanted to leave the outpost. Not this time.

“I promise not to take any big wagers,” I told my friend. “I’d be content with a little extra for holidays gifts.”

“Dani muttered a curse under her breath. “I’d almost forgotten about the holiday party coming up.”

“How could you forget?” I grinned at her. “Christmas is one of the few carryovers from Earth traditions that I like. Presents, cookies, cheesy songs. What’s not to like?”

“She shook her head at me and laughed. “Your obsession with Christmas is almost as unexpected as your gambling skills.”

Dani wasn’t the first person to be startled that a human female with unruly brown curls usually pulled up in a ponytail and a smattering of freckles could be so ruthless at the card table. I didn’t look like the gamblers that frequented card rooms, which was a crucial part of my strategy.

“What can I say?” I winked at her. “I’m full of contradictions.”