She wanted a fresh start. She got an alien War-Commander instead. Harper is drowning. Broke, exhausted, and dragging her irresponsible cousin through life, she sees the Mate Program as her only escape. A signing bonus and a fresh start, what could go wrong? Then her cousin blows the money and crashes their flyer. Harper thinks they're done for… until seven feet of patient, protective, irritatingly handsome alien warrior pulls her from the wreckage. Now she's in his quarters. Under his rules. Going nowhere. Until the Mate Program decides they don't want her, and they're going to send her home. Unless the warrior who saved her gets his way… He didn't become a War-Commander by giving up. She doesn't stand a chance. When War-Commander Kirr M'Aab pulls the fierce little human female from a crashed flyer, he knows she was always meant to be his. He'll burn down the program, the station, and anyone who tries to take her from him. She's prickly, defensive, but also the most beautiful thing he's ever seen. The more she pushes him away, the more he wants her. When her past threatens to destroy everything, he will have to prove that his protection—and his heart—are hers for keeps.