The main male character has villainous facets to him that do not immediately soften in this slower-burn romance. He might be stealing her heart, but she can't keep him in chains, because he could be the key to saving the galaxy-or destroying it.This isn't a light read, featuring a sweet-from-the-start hero. Yet, when he meets her eyes, there's a darkness in his intense gaze that makes her think his captors might be telling the truth about him, despite his claims of innocence.Caught between two greedy groups seeking wealth and power, Paisley soon discovers that far more lies behind the mystery surrounding the Iriduan prisoner they call Halian. Paisley realizes that her days of avoiding danger are over when, among the rescued passengers, trouble with a capital "T" is escorted onto her ship-in chains for bringing an apocalypse to Earth that resulted in millions of deaths.Something about the prisoner makes it impossible for her to look away from him, and it isn't just the fact that he's the most handsome alien she's ever seen.
She knows she has to keep her head down and her behavior humble in order to survive.When the crew responds to an automated distress call from an Akrellian warship that shouldn't be malfunctioning, she senses a threat, but she knows no one will listen to her warnings. This alien romance features an alien hero who actually looks alien, strong language, violence, and open door intimate scenes.As a captive of aliens, Paisley is forced to work as an engineering assistant on an ancient wrecker starship. Still, she’ll accept help where she can find it, so she doesn't hesitate to escape with Thrax from the facility, though their time running from their pursuers in the warrens beneath the research facility will forever change Claire, and could make it impossible for her to return to Earth.īut will there be anywhere else in the galaxy they can go where their love will be accepted?
Thrax’s pheromones are compelling, and his status as a fellow unwilling test subject makes them allies, but Claire isn't certain she can trust someone who is convinced she belongs to him, when all she wants to do is find a way to return home to Earth-a place that her devoted alien can never follow, because there’s no way the scorpion-like alien would ever be able to pass for human.
The last thing she expects is to be abducted by aliens and dropped into a research facility, where a genetically-engineered alien soldier chooses her as his life-mate. “Claire has never really fit in with everyone around her, but she's carved out a life for herself using her own unique style and artistic ability to support herself on the Internet.
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