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.
Jen is still grieving. That is where this story starts. Her husband is gone, the life she had built around that marriage is gone, and she is living in the space between loss and whatever comes after it.
Then something pulls her to the Columbia River. Something she cannot explain. And the world she steps into has nothing to do with the one she was trying to hold together.
Dovanik is a dark sci-fi romance novel about a woman learning to survive her grief and a warrior who is questioning everything he built his life around.
Jen did not choose to enter the Tri Galaxies. She was pulled. The encounter at the Columbia River is the turning point that takes her from a world she understood into one that operates by rules she does not know yet.
Dovanik is a battleship fighter. He is good at it. But meeting Jen puts pressure on ambitions he has never stopped to examine, and the questions that come up are not ones he can fight his way through.
This widow alien romance does not minimize what Jen is carrying. The grief is real and it stays in the story, not as a device but as a truth. She is not ready to fall in love again, and the book does not pretend otherwise. What grows between her and Dovanik grows at the pace it has to.
He is a fighter by training and by nature. The Tri Galaxies have given him a structure to operate inside, a hierarchy that rewards exactly what he is good at. He has followed that structure because it made sense to follow it.
Jen is the first thing in a long time that makes him look at it differently. She did not come into his world to challenge his choices. She came in the middle of her own loss. But her presence changes what he sees when he looks at his own life, and that is what makes this battleship fighter love story land the way it does.
Jen is not a woman who falls apart. She has been through the kind of loss that either breaks people or proves what they are made of. She is still standing. That does not mean she is fine.
She does not arrive in the Tri Galaxies looking for love. She arrives looking for solid ground. What she finds in Dovanik is not what she expected, and it does not come without resistance. Her arc in this story is about choosing to keep living, which is a harder thing than it sounds when you are still holding your grief.
Most alien warrior romance stories are about the chase. Dovanik is about two people who are both in the middle of something. A woman in grief and a warrior in doubt. The romance builds in the space between those two states, and it earns its weight because of it.
Dovanik is part of The Deal Series, a sci-fi romance series set across the Tri Galaxies. Each book stands on its own. This one is a strong entry point for readers drawn to darker emotional territory in their romance. New readers will have everything they need from page one.
Dovanik is available now in the shop. If you are drawn to alien warrior romance with real emotional stakes and a love story that builds from loss rather than around it, this is the one to read.
