Quoting the blurb from Amazon:
“It’s been a year since private Cal Brayden returned
to Earth after
his role in a disastrous mission to Daleko. He’s spent the year
tangled in legal red tape, on probation as his command tries to decide whether
or not to fire him.
Mazuna Tyn is a galactic ambassador with a secret she’s been keeping from the government: she’s mixed-species. Her father was a slyseh from Holn, a planet that neighbors Daleko. Mazuna looks human enough to pass, but she steers clear of relationships with humans, for fear that what’s underneath her clothes will give her away.
When Earth sends a crew to Holn to negotiate a land deal, they tap Brayden and Mazuna to go. There’s friction and fire in equal measures between the two, but as their attraction builds, so does the weight of their secrets. Can they find a way to be together in a world that might not understand their love?”
Mazuna Tyn is a galactic ambassador with a secret she’s been keeping from the government: she’s mixed-species. Her father was a slyseh from Holn, a planet that neighbors Daleko. Mazuna looks human enough to pass, but she steers clear of relationships with humans, for fear that what’s underneath her clothes will give her away.
When Earth sends a crew to Holn to negotiate a land deal, they tap Brayden and Mazuna to go. There’s friction and fire in equal measures between the two, but as their attraction builds, so does the weight of their secrets. Can they find a way to be together in a world that might not understand their love?”
When I am not writing, I enjoy good books. Reading
other people’s work is not only entertaining but it often sparks my imagination
to a whole different tangent from what I have read. From time to time I do ARC
reviews for other authors. I’ve read a
number of her previous works and it just seems to get better and better.
The characters are multi-dimensional
and the romance between Mazuna and Brayden is not instantaneous and believable.
Their attraction for each other lies just under the surface through nearly all
their interactions.
After Brayden’s screw up of his last mission to Daleko, he is lucky to get one more chance on Mazuna’s diplomatic mission to Holn. Despite her attraction to Brayden, she is not sure he is right for the job but agrees to work with him anyway. Brayden thinks that different species should not mate. He doesn’t know that Mazuna has a thirty-year-old secret that she has been keeping.
Initially it seems like they are
trying to make the relationship work not only for the mission but because of
their attraction for each other. The experience changes them both for the
better as they grow to love each other which is evident long before they say
it.
The world building was excellent and
the different species of aliens were interesting. Fans of this author should be
pleased with this story. Those who are not already fans should be come fans.
This was a really good read with no cliff hanger.
Chris Myers
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