A deliciously enticing slow burn of a story...! Claire made a life for herself out on the outskirts of the city, proud of how self-sufficient she had become over time. An afternoon horse riding trek in the snow with just her dogs for company, she stumbles across something that changes her life forever. That something ends up being a member of Satomian royalty desperate to get as far away from his home planet as possible; far from the bond match his elders were insisting on. Nashav refused to mate, and his desire to remain in control of his own life now has him at the mercy of this human female who begins to nurse him back to health, revealing a quickly growing attraction he is trying desperately to control...