Assimilation, Love, and Other Human Oddities by Lyn Gala

He may be my #1 most loved character out of any book I have read, ever. You've all heard the term 'Death by Chocolate', right? Well, this was 'Death by Ondry'. In fact, stories where they aren't squick her badly, so don't expect to find abuse stories in her journal. In her worlds, tops and bottoms are all mature, consenting adults. Some of her stories focus on power exchange, bondage or bdsm.

She prefers to focus on plot: mysteries and monsters and disasters, oh my, but sex can and does happen. She first cut her teeth on fanfic: gen, slash, het, and femslash. When she isn’t writing, Lyn Gala teaches in New Mexico. Her characters seek to better themselves and find the happy ending (or happier anyway), but it’s writing the struggle that inspires her muse. Even the purest heroes have pain and loss and darkness in their hearts, and that’s where she likes to find her stories. Westerns starring men with shady pasts gave way to science fiction with questionable protagonists which eventually gave in to any story with a morally ambiguous character. Lynsey 'Lyn' Gala started writing in the back of her science notebook in third grade and hasn’t stopped since. Liam is his family, and Ondry will protect him with his last breath… assuming that he can recognize the dangers in time to do so. He does know one thing that humans seem to constantly forget-that the peaceful Rownt are predators and when their families are threatened, Rownt become deadly killers. Unfortunately, new humans bring new conflicts and he is not sure how to protect Liam. Ondry has no hope of understanding human psychology in general, he only knows that he will hold onto his palteia with the last breath in his body, and he'd like to keep his status and his wealth too. He also wants to serve Ondry with not only the pleasures of the nest but also by bringing human profits. Liam wants to help the people he left and the worlds being torn apart. When political changes at the human base lead Ondry to attempt a difficult trade, the pair find themselves entangled in human affairs. Ondry and Liam have settled into a good life, but their trading is still tied up with humans, and humans are always messy.

Assimilation, Love, and Other Human Oddities by Lyn Gala