Her Alien Warden

Tamsin Oduya cut into the wrong hull and woke something four hundred years older than her ship. Sereth ka Ankh is the last warden of the Vault of Ankh-Seru, keeper of an archive that is dying, and he has one law: intruders do not leave. He should have spaced her. Instead he sealed her in. Now the youngest salvage engineer in the Kestrel Belt is living inside a locked alien library with a sixty-two-year-old soldier who speaks like a treaty and watches her like a fault line. The vault needs her core. She needs a way out. Neither of them planned on the third option. When a Consortium recovery crew arrives to strip the vault for parts, Sereth offers himself to buy her freedom — and Tamsin does something illegal, permanent, and entirely her own. A sci-fi alien age gap romance about a locked door, a dying archive, and two wardens who choose each other on purpose.