Her Cold-Blooded Mercenary by Lea Linnett

He’s a lover. She’s a fighter.

Taz has always fought; for herself as a child, for her sister as an adult, and for her people as a rebel. And the levekk—the aliens who invaded her planet centuries earlier—have always been her enemy.So when her leader hires a levekk mercenary from off-planet, Taz knows she can’t trust him. It’s bad enough that he’s a mercenary, but with his wandering eyes and teasing tongue, it’s obvious he’s the worst kind of levekk: a tourist.But there are humans missing from New Chicago, and Kamanek is the only one who’ll help her get them back. If she wants to keep fighting for her people, she might have to ask the very alien she should hate the most for help—one who makes her blood boil in more ways than one.
—
Kamanek is on the run and desperate—why else would he come to a fringe planet with such archaic laws about who he’s allowed to take to his bed? But CL-32 does have its perks…And the fiery human who greeted him with a blade to the face might just be the greatest one. She’s as explosive as fireworks and hot enough to burn, but he’s been trained from childhood to keep his attachments skin-deep. Skin and scales can heal, after all.But the feelings she awakens in him are dangerous—more dangerous than anything his life as a mercenary can throw at him—and if they run deep enough, they might just be fatal.