As weeks folded into months, their relationship deepened into a quiet dailyness that neither of them had expected. They argued about nothing and everything: he attempted to replicate her tea, failing spectacularly but succeeding in a different, metallic way; she tried to hum the ship’s engine to lull herself, which made the ship’s lights ripple like a concert of jellyfish. Intimacy for them was learning how to be ordinary together in a universe that did not value ordinariness.

is a solid entry in the Amanda Milo catalog and the Alien Romance genre. It delivers exactly what it promises: a fluffy, steamy, escapist story about a dangerous alien warrior who falls hard for a human woman.