The Mountain's Mate

Sara Ivy Hill

Book 1 of Salt Planet Giants

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A cash-strapped human named Maja takes a shady job from Patrek, a towering Skarr alien nearly fourteen feet tall, only to have the gig go sideways and force the pair into hiding together. Their forced proximity awakens Patrek's long-dormant mating instinct, and what starts as a business arrangement becomes an unlikely, size-defying romance. The story leans into found-family warmth and danger as Maja must decide whether to leave her old life behind for a monster who calls her his fated mate. It's the first book in Hill's Salt Planet Giants series and sets up the alien world's darker underbelly alongside its tender love story.