Desiree Sandz is a self-published author who creates immersive sci-fi and fantasy romance stories where destiny, desire, and otherworldly power collide. Her worlds are filled with powerful beings, cosmic bonds, and love stories that transcend time, space, and reality. Each book invites readers into a universe where passion is intense, the stakes are high, and nothing happens by accident — especially love.
Shivan has seen her face his whole life. Not in a memory, not in a dream he can shake off by morning. In a vision. The kind that does not fade, does not distort, and does not leave room for doubt. He has spent years holding onto it, building his life around the certainty that she is real and that he will find her.
Mikel does not believe in any of that.
Shivan is a soulmate sci-fi romance about a celestial who has always known and a skeptic who has to learn it the hard way.
Shivan is not like the warriors and mechanics and fighters in the rest of the Tri Galaxies. He is a celestial, and that means the way he moves through the world carries a different kind of weight. He is not driven by ambition or by survival. He is driven by something he has carried since before he understood what it meant.
The vision of his soulmate has been with him for as long as he can remember. He does not question it. He does not try to outrun it. He waits, prepares, and believes.
Then an adventure brings Mikel into his life, and the face from the vision is standing in front of him in a world she never expected to be in.
This cosmic destiny romance does not rush the moment when she finally sees what he has always known. It earns it.
He is patient in a way that most of the men in this series are not. He is not guarded. He is not resisting. He has known too long and believed too fully to pretend indifference when she finally arrives.
What makes him work as a hero is that his certainty is not possessive. He does not treat her as a conclusion he already reached. He gives her the space to get there herself, and that restraint is harder than it looks.
Mikel is a skeptic by nature and by choice. She does not believe in fated love, does not believe in visions of soulmates, and does not believe that a celestial being she just met has been carrying her face in his mind since childhood.
She is not difficult. She is just honest. And her honesty is what makes her arc in this vision of soulmate love story one of the most satisfying in the series. Watching a skeptic become a believer, not because she was worn down but because the evidence became impossible to deny, is what this book is built around.
Most of the books in The Deal Series are about men who resist. Shivan is about a man who has never resisted at all, paired with a woman who resists for both of them. That reversal gives this book a tone that stands apart from the rest of the series without pulling away from the world.
Shivan is part of The Deal Series, a sci-fi romance series set across the Tri Galaxies. Each book stands on its own, and this one is a good entry point for readers drawn to cosmic destiny, romance and celestial mythology. New readers will not need prior knowledge to follow the story.
Shivan is available now in the shop. If you are looking for a celestial romance novel with a hero who has loved from a distance for years and a heroine who earns every bit of her belief, this one is for you.
