Kaden's Monster

Is now available fore pre-order. It will be released on the 21st June.

This story began life several years ago as a book for children, intended for my grandchildren, Jackson, Brady (who is in the story), Robin, Brecken and Kaia. Kaden was going to be 14, and on a take-your-child-to-work-with-you day, when he’d go to the biotech lab with his father.

BUT the whole premise of it, you’ll see when (or if) you read, seemed too much for young children so I set it aside. I thought about making it a Young Adult story, then New Adult and doing a time jump but it wasn’t working in my head, so I set it aside again. At the beginning of the year, I had a rethink, rewrote the first four chapters and suddenly, the story took off.

If you’re expecting or hoping for a full-blooded, loads of technical sci-fi detail, this is not the book for you. Although it is a sci-fi story, it’s very lightly that. Yes, Joe is an alien, not humanoid, quite scary looking, the story takes place on Earth and evolves into a very human drama far more than a sci-fi one.

It was huge fun to write and I hope you enjoy it!

An alien weapon. A human mistake. An impossible bond.

Kaden’s life is stretched thin between journalism, fantasy novels, stand-up comedy and ghostwriting. And an endless series of distractions while his relationship crumbles around him. Something has to change. He has to change. Then, on an assignment at his boyfriend’s biotech lab, Kaden sees something that should be impossible. A small blue blob in a tank trying to escape its pursuers.

The blue blob is a Protector: a living armour system engineered to bond with his other in moments of danger. But he’s chosen to betray his own kind rather than help destroy an innocent world. Now he’s stranded on Earth—wounded, hunted, and unable to fully communicate.

Kaden’s been warned not to touch anything. But he does far more than that. He smuggles the blob out of the lab, names him Joe and sparks a dangerous connection. Joe was never meant to bond with someone like Kaden, but as uncertainty around them grows, including threats tied to the powerful man Kaden ghostwrites for, Kaden becomes the one person Joe cannot abandon.

What begins as a moment of madness becomes friendship, deepens to devotion, and ignites into a love that they might not survive. The universe is stranger, and far more alive, than humanity ever imagined.

Warnings

This book contains two brief episodes of domestic abuse. It also has a couple of icky bits…not horror exactly, but close to it.

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