Lanette Curington

Lanette Curington writes romance that crosses contemporary, paranormal, fantasy, and science-fiction settings. Starkissed follows Leith McClure after illness in her family leaves her responsible for a shipping business and reveals that her father has been trading with the extraterrestrial Zi. Betrayal strands Leith with a Zi warrior on an isolated planet, where survival requires cooperation across cultural and biological differences. The novel is a full-length science-fiction romance of roughly 80,000 words and was republished after an earlier edition. Curington's other work includes stories involving magic, shapeshifters, and speculative societies, showing a preference for relationships that begin across boundaries the characters have been taught to distrust. In Starkissed, commercial exchange first connects the two worlds, but enforced isolation turns an abstract alliance into a personal test. The planetary setting supplies danger and unfamiliar customs, while Leith's new authority in the family business gives her decisions consequences beyond the immediate relationship.