Novalyn Bryce is a student, tending bar at night to put herself through school in New York City. She has no family, few friends, and no romantic prospects.

Odrik Nuh’ar of Qetesh is seven feet tall, with skin the color of honey. He is a warrior hunter, with rippling muscles and ink black hair, and horns that wrapped around his head like a crown.

The Qet are a proud, tribal people, who were settled on the planet Qetesh two hundred or so years ago. Over those 200 years, most of their females have died off, leaving them on the brink of extinction.

The government, in conjunction with an intergalactic agency known only as The Echelon -- a group that serves to keep the balance of the universe in check -- has been plucking human women up out of their lives to bring them to Qetesh as potential mates to keep the proud people from dying out entirely.

Novalyn Bryce is one such woman.

Review

I loved the hero and the world was interesting if trite in some of its depictions. The heroine made me nuts. She was Too Stupid To Live.

The behavior of the suppliers of the women was immoral and that didn't match with their mission and I had trouble moving past that.

The heroine waffles until the last moment. I wished for better for the hero.

Stranded on an abandoned planet with my fated mate.

Vera can’t stand me, which is fine by me because I don’t like people much, especially humans. Especially voluptuous human women with liquid dark eyes and lips that begged to be kissed and curves that fit perfectly against my warrior’s physique.

Our ship crashed and now we’re stuck for who knows how long, waiting for rescue. I’m not sure I can resist her much longer and I’m starting to think the attraction is mutual.

The problem is she’s the sister of my princess and too good for a grizzled warrior like me.

Review 

All in all this is a sweet romance. It has an older reluctant hero and an scientist heroine.

The plot is then and some of the barriers to romance are lame but somehow the relationship development overcomes these issues.

A nice read.

Oh this is just what I needed. I love the series. And this instalment, had everything I was hoping for. 

Cute & fluffy with hot alpha warriors. 

Even if I wanted to pommel Magnus through half of the book. And I was nearly throwing my kindle on the wall with frustration about towards the end. The pent-up wanting by 80% had me screaming at both, Helen and Magnus. 

The end was freakn awesome. I feel that nice glowing contentment after your cute & fluffy fix. All happy fuzzy... and I really really am looking forward to read Kenneth story soon. 

For now I shall bask in my fuzziness.