Courting the Alien Ambassador
A Xenolinguist Romance

About this book:

Dr. Vesper Reed speaks forty-two alien languages. She just accidentally proposed marriage to a seven-foot predator in the one that matters most.

When a single misplaced pitch in High Kordani turns a diplomatic greeting into a binding courtship offer, Vesper finds herself tethered to Lord Ambassador Kaelen—ruler of a warrior empire, master of a language where syntax is law and biology is destiny. He doesn't do misunderstandings. He doesn't do retractions. And he absolutely doesn't do "no." With a failing alliance hanging on her ability to navigate a culture where a gifted silver branch seals a contract written in blood and pheromones, Vesper must out-translate her own mistake before Kaelen claims the "nest" she never meant to offer.

But the more she deciphers his layered dialect, the more the lines blur between diplomatic strategy and something far more dangerous. Kaelen plays the long game with the patience of a species that hunts by starlight, and every verbal spar, every charged silence, every brush of claws against her throat harmonizer rewrites the definition of *consent* in a language she thought she mastered. In a galaxy on the brink of war, the only thing more treacherous than a Kordani courtship ritual is falling for the monster holding the pen.