I love me some SFR. It makes me happy to seeing people of different perspectives find themselves in each other.

Jade's abduction set up this delightfully tense interspecies romp. Her determination to get home set her up for an existential clash. But can she find a reason to stay?

Theo's "ugly" scars and repeated traumas made him the perfect foil.

It was pretty clear how this story would go but watching them turn themselves inside out, each working against their own interests until they just had to accept their new reality.

Two people dying of thirst. Much teasing. A great deal of posturing. A bit of heat hinting of more. Toes might have curled but the story wrapped up nicely with a cute nudge for the next hunky alien to take the stage in book 2.

Oh, and evil was - if not vanquished - at least given a good black eye.

Highly Recommended.