On one level, this was a perfectly good ‘hot bounty hunter alien guy saves our human lady and promises to return to earth except they’re both catching feelings for each other’ story. Which always slaps, in my books.

The crew was especially fun. And our hero was panicking because he felt he didn’t deserve her. Love that.

But there were a few things that made me pause. Our heroine was such a virgin that it bordered on cartoonish. Then, the original abduction was maybe too dark for the rest of the story’s tone? It was giving ‘first few chapters of IPB’. And what made our heroine so desirable was that she was “pure human” in a universe where most aliens had some mixed human ancestry… which was a choice.

I picked this up because I loved a novella by this author in the Supra Velum anthology last year (a very hoa hoa hoa vampire-alien story) so I have hope that I’ll find another story I love by them.