Róisín boards a luxury space cruise to put a two-decade relationship behind her, planning only to rest among the alien passengers.
Instead, she becomes the point of First Contact with a species no one has encountered before, and the pheromones that follow are anything but subtle.
Zandaor Exlith-Orvanis-Orkith cannot afford the distraction: his homeworld faces annihilation, and his scout ship must secure allies among the cruise’s many species.
The human assigned as his guide is stubborn, striking, and, to his undoing, his true mate.
Diplomacy falters as he tries to save his people without giving in to the woman who has suddenly become his whole universe.
