Tendrils of the Heart (A Rifter Romance)

Ever had one of those days where you feel like nothing's going your way?
Like when your boyfriend (who you thought was one of the nice guys) dumps you ... by text?
Then your landlady calls to tell you she's selling your rental?
Aria is having one of those days.
But when she sets out to find a new place and reset her priorities, she gets more than she bargained for. Instead of having the cozy cottage she's just found all to herself, she soon ends up face to—tentacle?—with a being who splashes down in her bathtub. (Fortunately, she's not in it at the time. Her lingerie, on the other hand...)
She's met plenty of rifters, people who came to Earth through a spacetime fissure years ago, but never one like this before. This one is pink, tentacled, and injured.
She's determined to help them. But will this mysterious and unusual being just be passing through, or is there the potential for something more?
This is a ~17k-word standalone cozy, spicy romance story about a curvy woman and a nonbinary tentacle being from another world. It contains explicit, consensual sex scenes (consentacles!) and is intended for a mature audience.

T. M. Ròcas (they/them) writes cozy, spicy monster shorts. Struggling to find the stories they wanted to read, Ròcas decided to write their own. Their diverse cast of characters are just trying to find their way in the world: an alternative Earth full of humans living alongside folk who look like they just walked out of ancient myth and old sci fi movies. Along the way, they discover their love interests in the least expected places (usually by bumping into, tripping over, and/or accidentally scaring the bejeebies out of them). So if you want to forget about the world for a while and dive into something with a lot of heart (and, okay, sex), then these might just be the books you're looking for...