Samantha Fitzgerald has what she sees as a mundane, normal life. She lives in a city that is perpetually blanketed in snow, works a job where she is not appreciated or even noticed, and has only ever been with two men. She only has one friend and she is a "late-blooming orphan". Then she starts to see the spaceship in the sky. It is a huge UFO, but nobody else can see it. There is nothing on the news and there is no widespread panic. There can only be one conclusion: she is crazy. And when she hears the voices telling her to go into the country, she is sure she is getting even crazier. Then she meets Bak and Ras, blue-skinned aliens who have travelled from another galaxy to be with her. Why do these aliens want her so badly? Can she love men who aren't human? Can she really leave Earth with them and journey across the stars? ** Standalone short story, no cliffhangers

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