SAM

Friday night usually meant gazing at the stars in the clear Joshua Tree sky.
For Midwestern-raised Samantha Ferguson, it meant escape. California had put two thousand miles between her and a family that had always had opinions about how she should live.
Out here, nobody had any opinions at all.
The stars never judged.
Until the night a shimmering bubble appears over the trail and drops a naked man at her feet.
He isn't hurt. He isn't drunk. And judging by the language coming out of his mouth, he isn't from anywhere Samantha can take him back to.
His name is Samura.
At least, that's what she thinks he's saying.
Taking him home seems marginally better than leaving him naked in the desert. It's also the last sensible decision Samantha will make for quite some time.
Because Samura is learning.
Fast.
Every day brings a new discovery. Some are astonishing. Others are embarrassingly ordinary. And somehow Samantha finds herself explaining things she has accepted all her life without ever really thinking about them, becoming a guide to a version of reality she barely understands herself.
Explaining Samura is considerably harder.
Especially once it becomes clear that the impossible stranger sleeping under her roof isn't merely lost. His existence could change everything humanity knows about the universe.
And Samantha isn't the only one beginning to realize it.
Soon, her quiet California life has become an adventure involving people she never expected to meet, places she never expected to go, and one spectacularly inconvenient man who views almost everything about Earth with bafflement.
Almost everything.
Because while Samantha is showing Samura her world, something equally unexpected is happening.
She's starting to see it differently, too.
And somewhere between the danger, the laughter, the impossible science, and the increasingly complicated question of how to get him home, Friday nights beneath the stars become the least interesting part of Samantha Ferguson's life.
SAM is a funny, adventurous, heartfelt sci-fi romance about an impossible visitor, the woman who finds him, and what can happen when the universe decides your comfortable little life could use a serious adjustment.
Perfect for readers who enjoy big emotions, unforgettable journeys, and the kind of book that leaves them smiling long after the final page.