Saving Verakko

This is the book that converts alien romance skeptics. Lily escapes captivity and drags a charming, fanged alien through the jungle on her terms. Verakko can literally sway minds with his voice, but Lily is immune to his tricks and unimpressed by his posturing—which naturally makes him fall completely apart for her. The survival-romance pacing is perfectly calibrated: danger pushes them together, banter keeps it electric, and by the time they give in to the mate bond, you are fully feral. Victoria Aveline writes alien heroes who feel genuinely alien without losing the swoony romance factor.