Brynn Ellison has treated every injury her struggling human settlement can produce, until a massive, scaled alien warrior arrives at her infirmary bleeding from a wound that refuses to heal.
Thexan is being hunted, and the soldiers behind him will cut down anyone who stands between them and their target.
Her touch is the only thing that steadies his failing body, while distance makes the damage worse, and Thexan knows his fated-mate biology has already recognized her as his.
Brynn refuses to let alien instinct decide her future, even as his fierce protection and their forced closeness draw them together.
If the hunters learn where he is hiding, or what she has become to him, no one around her will be safe.
She must decide how far she will go for the wounded warrior she saved, and Thexan must choose between leaving to protect his mate and trusting that she has already chosen him too.
