
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 in ebook and paperback)

She wanted a hideaway. She needed a home.
(romantic science fiction: cover and novel coming 2026)
After stealing from corrupt law enforcement, Mary flees the spaceport streets for a remote rural outpost. In spite of her discomfort with the farm’s frontier vastness and her prejudice against the family that abandoned her surrogate brother, she finds love as well as safe haven while hiding the truth behind her visit to the farm.
Now she must decide whether to be honest with her found family and risk losing her last chance for a real home, or be exposed as a thief when the law catches up to her.
Read an excerpt in Embark Literary Journal.

