Whoever heard of an Alien Hero dating service?!
She swiped right on a glowing coaster. He can't stop purring. The universe, apparently, has opinions about their love life.
Three glasses of wine, one disastrous ex blowing up her phone, and a bioluminescent coaster that only she can see. Elise Moreno is a cruise ship performer who has spent years being told she's too much — too loud, too intense, too relentlessly, unapologetically herself. So when a holographic alien dating service materializes above her drink and offers a 99.2% compatibility match, she does what any sensible woman three glasses deep would do: she answers every ridiculous question and hits submit. Because at this point, cosmic consequences sound better than another text from Derek.
What she doesn't expect is for her match to already be on board. Captain Torvax is all sharp angles, slate-blue skin, and eleven years of flawless emotional control — a Lyrathi navigator who can feel the gravitational pull of the universe in his bones. What he cannot control, it turns out, is the way his bioluminescent markings blaze like a supernova the moment Elise walks into the room. Or the involuntary purring. Definitely not the purring. He is a captain who has never miscalculated a jump. He is about to discover that she is the one variable his navigation instincts never saw coming — and that his carefully ordered universe is already listing off course.
She's finally found someone who thinks her energy is a feature, not a flaw. He's a glowing, purring alien who literally cannot hide what he feels. But can Elise trust that this match — the most impossible, ridiculous, wonderful one of all — is exactly what she's been looking for before sixty days and the end of her contract pull them back into their separate worlds?
