Book Description
A space cruise with her bestie seems like the vacation of a lifetime until Holly Winter gets abducted by aliens and finds herself on a slave ship.
When the ship’s AI goes haywire and accidentally releases the prisoners from their cells, she makes a break for it—only to be kidnapped again by a huge horned and furry alien. Aeon claims to be a prince, but he acts like a royal jerk and refuses to let Holly go. However, she’s determined to locate her friend and somehow get home to New Terra.
Prince Aeon of Araset is enjoying his last breath of freedom from royal duties when he’s accidentally ensnared by slavers trafficking in alien species, including the protected but despised humans. At the first opportunity, he escapes in a tiny evac pod and lands on the nearest inhabited planet. In an impulsive act of sympathy, he takes a human female with him to save her from a fate worse than death. Now he’s stuck with the talkative, conspicuous nuisance. For her own safety, he can’t release her.
At odds, at first, Holly and Aeon quickly discover that on a hostile, dangerous planet, being friends and working together offers more benefits than fighting. But when friendship turns passionate, emotions remain guarded because both know they are loving on borrowed time. Upon their rescue, Holly must return to New Terra. A human would never be accepted on Araset, and Aeon must bond with a royal of his species to inherit the throne.
Can two lovers from different worlds defeat the forces against them and find happiness together?
My Review
When Holly thinks she's booked a cruise but then gets kidnapped by aliens that plan to auction her off as a pet or worse, she's happy when it looks like the ship is in trouble. But before she can escape, one of the aliens that had been in the holding cell with her, kidnaps her and takes her with him. He's helping her but she doesn't trust him right away.
Prince Aeon was hoping to have a little freedom before his father the king makes him take a mate to form a truce with aliens they have been at war with. But he gets kidnapped by slave traffickers and when he's able to escape the ship, he does the unthinkable and saves Holly. He's not even sure why he did it, other than he's intrigued by her.
They go through a lot while trying to find a way to get back to their homes and along the way they find that they really like each other. They get closer even though they know they can never be together after they get home because Aeon had to mate with someone else and his father and his people will never accept a human mate for their prince.
It was fun to watch these two get closer and form a bond that neither thought possible. Gotta love these sexy aliens.
I give this book 4 out of 5 stars.
