This is definitely leaning more towards sci-fi erotica than romance, but there’s actually a really interesting plot going on with the xeno-anthropologist heroine (who’s from India, another pleasant surprise to find a PoC heroine in a sci-fi romance) and her quest to save primitive civilizations a shadowy group of ‘bad guys’ want to wipe out so they can provide pristinely ‘uninhabited’ worlds for colonization. One note for the author, though; using the word ‘exotic’ is conside

When an engineer working on a super-top-secret project for the US military is dragged through a space portal by a menacing, striped alien at the beginning of this book, the scene is set for a major culture clash, and the story doesn’t disappoint. Jape is a warrior with a massive grudge against Earthlings. Getting stuck babysitting the one he accidentally kidnapped is the last thing he wants. Velia’s not what he expected, though, and he finds himself starting to believe in her