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.
Nanko has always been a little reckless. Fast decisions, loose plans, the kind of confidence that does not always check itself before acting. He has gotten away with it long enough to stop questioning it.
Then he meets a woman who has every reason not to trust a man like him. And for the first time, what he has always gotten away with is not enough.
Nanko is a redemption alien romance about a man who has been coasting and a woman who makes him want to be worth something.
In the Tri Galaxies, Nanko is a pilot. He is good at it, and he knows it. He has built a life around movement, speed, and not staying anywhere long enough to leave something behind. That life has worked for him.
River is from Louisiana farm country, and she grew up believing in love the way you believe in something you can see and hold. Her childhood sweetheart was supposed to be the whole story. Then he betrayed her, and she closed that part of herself off, put on her nursing scrubs, and built a life that was smaller and safer than the one she had imagined.
She was not looking for a space pilot love story. She was not looking for anything.
What happens between them starts with friction and builds into something neither of them planned for. This is not a quick romance. Nanko has to earn it, and earning it changes him in ways that going fast never could.
He is charming and he knows how to use it. He is not cruel, not calculating, just someone who has spent too long treating everything like it can be handled with confidence and a good line.
River sees through it. Not maliciously, just clearly. And being seen clearly, maybe for the first time, is what starts the shift in him.
This reckless hero sci-fi romance works because Nanko does not get a pass. He has to actually become something different, not perform it, and that process is the emotional core of the book.
River carried a betrayal for a long time before it stopped being the loudest thing in the room. She became a nurse, made new friends, had adventures she could not have predicted, and slowly built a life that was hers again.
She does not give herself away easily, and she does not pretend to feel things she does not feel. That honesty is what makes her the right match for a man like Nanko, because she will not let him get away with anything less than the real version of himself.
Nanko is part of The Deal Series, a sci-fi romance series set across the Tri Galaxies. Each book follows a different couple and stands on its own. Readers new to the series can start here without any prior reading. Readers who have already met some of these characters will find familiar ground in this one.
Nanko is available now in the shop. If you are drawn to alien pilot romance with a hero who has to work for it and a heroine who has been through enough to know the difference, start here.
