A Yellow Wood

Farid knows his duty. As one of the leaders of the Covenant of the Rainbow, a secret society that has prepared for the arrival of hostile aliens for millennia, he’s expected to form a soul bond that will strengthen his psychic powers and make him better able to fight the newly arrived invaders. His wife reluctantly agrees to cooperate. But their attempt to bond goes horribly wrong. Only her last minute withdrawal saves both their lives. Farid is forced to face the memories he’s buried for twenty-five years. As a university student in Iran, he experienced a brief, forbidden love that ended in tragedy. Now, if he wants to fully contribute to the defense of Earth, he’ll have to accept the truth about himself and seek out the lover he betrayed.

Arman has dedicated his life to working for acceptance and legal protections for the LGBTQ community in the Middle East. When he learns of the alien threat along with the rest of the world, he fears their hard-won progress will be lost. Long ago, he and his first love explored both their sexuality and their psychic powers together. When the affair came to a bitter end, he buried the memory of his supernatural gifts along with his grief. Now he has no choice but to join the Covenant so his powers can be trained and used, even though it will bring him to the attention of the one he’s never forgiven or forgotten.

The last thing either of them wants is to confront the ghosts of their past. But the aliens are about to engage in a maneuver that will bring their ship to Earth long before the Covenant is ready for them. Only if Farid and Arman can overcome the fear and resentment that separate them and rekindle the love they once shared will they be able to form the bond that will forge their combined psychic powers into a weapon strong enough to foil the aliens’ plans and buy humanity the time it needs to unite against the enemy.