
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 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.

