Vinduthi Stolen Brides Series by Ava York

Trapped with a Vinduthi in deep space. The only thing more dangerous than him… is what I’m starting to feel. I’ve survived three years as an indentured navigator by trusting no one—especially not the cold, controlled Vinduthi pilot who just ripped my world apart.Talon is nothing like the monsters who own this sector. He’s quiet, methodical, haunted by secrets he’ll never share... moreTrapped with a Vinduthi in deep space. The only thing more dangerous than him… is what I’m starting to feel. I’ve survived three years as an indentured navigator by trusting no one—especially not the cold, controlled Vinduthi pilot who just ripped my world apart.Talon is nothing like the monsters who own this sector. He’s quiet, methodical, haunted by secrets he’ll never share. When his mission collides with mine, we end up trapped together on a dying ship—two enemies, forced into a partnership neither of us wants.He needs my skills to survive. I need his ship to escape.We’re hunted, desperate, sharing the same air and too many secrets.Every argument feels like foreplay. Every brush of his hand threatens to set me on fire. Every time he pins me with those hungry eyes, I wonder what it would feel like to let go—just once.I should hate him. I do hate him.So why does every look, every command, every accidental touch leave me aching for more?There’s only one rule in deep never fall for the enemy.Too late.If you crave enemies-to-lovers, forced proximity, slow-burn tension, and broken heroes who protect what’s theirs, climb aboard. Welcome to the Vinduthi Stolen Brides! less

He thinks he's the apex predator. Adorable.BRONWENFive years stuck on this prison planet taught me one thing—everything here wants to kill you, so you'd better be the thing they fear most. Now a hulking Vinduthi warrior has crashed into my kingdom, all horns and fangs and delicious violence. He thinks he's rescuing me. Poor beast has no idea I'm the monster in this fairy tale.ZAREKI came to this hellscape for revenge. Instead, I found her. Bronwen—soft where I'm scarred, smiling where I snarl... moreHe thinks he's the apex predator. Adorable.BRONWENFive years stuck on this prison planet taught me one thing—everything here wants to kill you, so you'd better be the thing they fear most. Now a hulking Vinduthi warrior has crashed into my kingdom, all horns and fangs and delicious violence. He thinks he's rescuing me. Poor beast has no idea I'm the monster in this fairy tale.ZAREKI came to this hellscape for revenge. Instead, I found her. Bronwen—soft where I'm scarred, smiling where I snarl. She walked into a death trap, whistled once, and sent the beasts that were tearing me apart slinking back into the dark. Then she offered me a bargain: her secrets for passage off-world.Because when a scarred alien beast meets a sunshine psycho with murder on her mind, the only question is who claims who first. less