This is a quick story filled with a lot of tension between the two main characters. Well, the two characters period. The tension is super good and it is seriously thick enough to cut with a knife at points. I love it.

Piper, a human salvage operator, once rescued someone, and now she's stuck with him. Kogan is a rejected consort who was sent back to his own planet in a life pod, but got rescued by Piper. Now, years later, they are still together.

I love how Piper and Kogan interact at the beginning of the story. They just pick and poke at each other. The sexual tension underneath everything is just so obvious and such a delight to read. When you only have two characters, you really have to make sure that there is a great connection between the characters, and that's what Maren Smith did. Fantastic story. ( )