I caught a trespasser digging for alien footprints in the snow. By dinner, my mom was calling him her son-in-law.
SIMON
In Higbee, Maine, police work means lawnmower feuds and illegal pet skunks.
The northern lights are coming, and so are the tourists. And Elijah Trimble.
He's trespassing in an orchard in a ratty yellow raincoat, telling me I stepped on alien tracks. They're rabbit tracks.
He has the greenest eyes I've ever seen, and he's searching for his parents.
The hotel's full, so I take him home to the family dinner I forgot.
My mom decides he's my boyfriend, and I don't have the heart to correct her.
Then I find a 1996 police report about the night his parents vanished that could break his heart.
He's happier with his aliens, so I keep quiet and rig a satellite on my roof so he can call them.
ELIJAH
I was three when I watched a spaceship take my parents.
Twenty years later, I saw Higbee's park on the news and knew it was the place.
Simon is big, bossy, and sure aliens don't exist, but also the kindest man I've ever met.
His mom feeds me clam chowder, and for one night, I have a family.
Then Simon kisses me by the fire while we wait for the aliens to call.
They're coming back on the night of the northern lights. I'm sure of it.
I just never planned on falling for a cop who thinks I'm crazy.
Men in Uniform is a steamy, opposites-attract contemporary M/M romance about a by-the-book small-town cop and a UFO-chasing sweetheart, with a mistaken-boyfriend mix-up, a first time, found family, and a guaranteed HEA. Please see the content note inside the book. Book 3 in the Northern Lights series. Each book features a new couple.