His Buried Star

Aria Pell has spent her career with the dead. She has not spent eight years meaning to call Brannoc Vhal. Then a body arrives on her bench that should not exist — Vashkan, but older than Vashkan, carrying genetic markers no one has ever catalogued. The only physician who could identify it is the man she let walk out of her life without asking him to stay. He arrives on the next supply run. He is cold. He is furious. The body is his brother's. Fourteen nights. One lab. Samples that need to be read before sunrise. And an old argument neither of them has stopped having. When the faction that killed his brother comes for the evidence, Brannoc chooses public over private, and burns everything he built to name what happened. A steamy alien doctor romance about the samples you read at night and the person you finally ask to stay.