Monica Goertzen Hertlein,
author of romantic science fiction, fantasy, and romantic fiction
Though her heart yearns for love, she must save her people.
Impossible love, mysterious high-tech invaders, sword-wielding knights, and a warrior princess (romantasy with science fiction elements available wherever you buy ebooks and on Amazon).
Princess Shawnia, heir and military leader of her prairie kingdom, intends to marry for love, but when her people are carelessly killed by invaders with unimaginably fast transport and deadly weapons never before seen, she must forge an alliance with the northern kingdom sealed by marriage to their prince. The northern prince is handsome and charming, but believes women and royals should remain protected far from the battlefield. Despite what the marriage will cost her in personal freedom and heartbreak, she resolves to see it through to save her people.
A free story for you…
Romance, family drama, corporate intrigue: a novella of two love stories (romantic fiction)
In 1986, the days of big hair and shoulder pads, Elaine can choose The Good Life or risk following her heart.
(romantic fiction: cover and novel coming March, 2026)
Socially awkward Elaine Richards has the university education, comfortable home, and credit cards her parents provide, but never filled in a resumé, operated a washing machine, or shopped for groceries, despite her desire for independence. Hoping she’ll settle into a socialite marriage like her parents, her father introduces her to Ken, a handsome young lawyer. At the same time, she’s entranced by Roland, an equally attractive maintenance manager, with his large, loving, working-class family.
As Elaine struggles to balance expectations of her parents and best friend with her own dreams, she tests her ideals of love. Before she can sort out her tangled feelings, unplanned complications derail her life. Now she must finally choose whether to give in to her father’s plans for an affluent marriage or try to make her own way with the help of Roland and his sisters.
With new responsibilities to consider as well as her own heart, is happy enough really enough?
She needed a refuge. She found a home.
(romantic science fiction: cover and novel coming 2026)
After stealing from corrupt law enforcement, Mary needs a place to lie low, far from the planet’s single spaceport. She runs to an old friend from the city streets now living on a remote farm. In spite of its frontier vastness and her prejudice against the family that left him destitute in his childhood, she is drawn into their circle.
She is also drawn to his elder brother. She becomes enmeshed with the family, using her machinery skill to tackle a rabbit plague threatening the farm’s livelihood and falling in love with Jacek while hiding the real reason for her visit to the rural outpost. But just when she decides their relationship is worth confessing the truth, the law catches up to her.
Read an excerpt in Embark Literary Journal.
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