The Celestial Fairytales Series

A retelling of Beauty and the Beast, but in space.   The human race is at war with the Rox, a ferocious race of horned, demonic humanoids from space, and humanity is losing.   When the humans and Rox agree to a hostage exchange, Lieutenant Zayn is asked to volunteer because of her social standing. She will be housed with a prince of the Rox, and their good behavior will ensure that peace talks will go forward between their races. Zayn is terrified of sharing living space with one of the demons, but she agrees in order to bring about an end to the war.   Alnair l'Nath is a prince and commander in the Rox fleet. He is nervous about being shut in with a human princess who might knife him in the back, but he wants the war to end, too. He and Zayn despise each other on sight, even though Alnair finds her oddly attractive.   Zayn and Alnair gradually make peace as they discover that humans and Rox are not so different. But when a rogue agent of the Rox kidnaps Zayn and Alnair in order to end the peace talks and escalate the war, it will fall to a human and a Rox, and the growing love between them, to end the conflict forever.   This is a sweet romance with only mild kissing, but plenty of suspense and action.

Cinderella in space ... if the glass slipper was a warship.   Rasha l'Cervantes, a Rox girl with beautiful golden horns, has been subjected to forced servitude along with the rest of her clan. While working in a quarry, she accidentally befriends a young neurolite, an armored insect that will one day grow up to become a spaceship. She also befriends a fellow prisoner, the ex-prince of her clan.   Kraz l'Cervantes made one bad political decision and now faces the dissolution of his clan. Everyone hates him except for a brave girl at the quarry: Rasha, who refuses to let him wallow in depression and forces him to eat.   The prisoners are separated and three years pass. Rasha recieves a summons to Kraz's Choosing, a party where he will select a bride. But it is really an attempt to find the missing pilot of a neurolite frigate: a rogue frigate who is a danger to the fleet. Now Rasha must decide whether or not to Choose Kraz ... if the deadly frigate doesn't claim her life, first.

Justin Tiberius is a medic on the human salvage vessel Parallax. When the ship recovers an abandoned cryopod, Justin is called upon to revive the person inside: an alien Rox maiden.   Mira l'Archon is the most beautiful girl in her clan, and survived assassination by a jealous rival. Terrified to return to the people who tried to kill her, she contents herself with life among the humans ... and her surprise marriage to Justin, who cannot legally protect her any other way.   When the woman who tried to murder Mira stands trial, Justin and Mira are called to the Rox fleet as witnesses. Unwittingly they have placed themselves squarely in the sights of a desperate Rox woman ... a woman who will stop at nothing to eliminate anyone more beautiful than herself.

When humanity begins to explore the stars, they meet and clash with the alien Rox, fearsome horned humanoids. War rages for seven years with heavy casualties on both sides ... until the humans and Rox decide to try to negotiate peace.   Song of the Rose: a Beauty and the Beast retelling. Zayn is a human political officer who agrees to become a hostage while peace talks begin between the humans and the Rox. She is to be cooped up in a lavish manor house on a remote moon with Alnair L'Nath, prince of the Rox kingship clan. But can these two people of vastly different races ever make peace with one another?   Of Stars and Ashes: a Cinderella retelling. Two years after the events of Song of the Rose, Rasha L'Cervantes has been subjected to forced labor along with the rest of their clan because of their rebellion. While working in a quarry, she is befriended by a young neurolite, the silicon-based lifeforms that grow into the Rox warships. Later, when Prince Kraz is desperately searching for the bonded pilot of this fully-grown frigate, Rasha must attend a ball in order to claim her ship--and the prince's heart.   Fairer than Snow: A Snow White retelling. Justin Tiberius is a human medic aboard the salvage ship Parallax. When they recover a cryopod with a beautiful Rox girl inside, Justin finds himself plunged into the world of Rox politics, where to be voted the most beautiful is to be declared queen ... or to be ruthlessly assassinated.