King Grim Vasteri is the strongest and most feared warrior in the Tornian Empire. He is the King of Luda, blood brother to the Emperor and his line will die with him. He will have no offspring for no female would Join with him, for once he was scarred he was considered ‘unfit’. The Tornian Empire has been dying ever since the great infection caused the birth of females to become a rarity. Since … Since then they have been searching the known universes, for compatible females. The Emperor’s discovery of a compatible female on a slave ship changed that. He has ordered Grim to find his Empress’ home world so more ‘unprotected’ females could be obtained, knowing Grim would never be allowed to Join with one.
Lisa Miller is a widowed mother of two little girls, Carly and Miki. Her husband died just a year ago, after a long battle with cancer and she misses him immensely. Friends want her to start dating again, but in her heart, she knows there isn’t a man on the planet she could love like her Mark and who could love their girls as their own. Therefore, she’ll stay alone.
When Lisa is discovered ‘unprotected’ at her husband’s grave site, she wakes on an alien ship heading for an alien world. Refusing to accept this she confronts the large alien males, demanding she be returned to her children. Seeing his chance to have a female, Grim agrees to accept and protect her offspring if she agrees to Join with him and only him. Realizing this is the only way she can retrieve her children, Lisa agrees and the Tornian Empire changes forever.
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I was pleasantly surprised by this book. I enjoyed the characters and the twists in the story. I would like to read more in the series.
Who doesn’t love a scarred hero? Grim is his brother’s best friend and an enforcer. His brother rescued a human woman from a ship of extremely nasty aliens and it was discovered that humans and their species could produce children. More than that–FEMALE children. They are dieing because their ratio of male-to-female births is 200-to-1. So he’s sent off to first, FIND Earth, and second grab 12 women from the planet and take them back to the world that is their capital. They are supposed to be women with no ties (well, no ties to a man) except, opps, a mistake is made with one of the women. She is a widow who was napped while visiting her husband’s grave. She is also the mother of 2 little girls. After throwing a hissy (hey, don’t get between a human woman and her kids, even if you are seven and a half feet tall.) Grim agrees to take her down and get her kids before they all head off into space. Lots of excitement happens as well as an HEA. What more can we want, right? Serious echoes of Beauty and the Beast here.
Well written with developed interesting character. A love story with a twist.
Great story. The tense changes are annoying but the story itself makes it well worth reading.
Author changed tenses in middle of paragraphs, left out words, and used the incorrect word frequently, but even with those issues I liked the book.
Liked it well enough to buy series. Trying to merge 2 cultures makes it interesting as they weed out the old customs that are impractical. Talk about culture shock at times. The Torarians prize worthy men but our Earthling shows them the true meaning of worthy.
There are a few books out there that make me laugh and cry and this is one of them…along with the other Tornian books by M.K. Eidem. Two cultures clash and therein lies the difficulties for the main characters. Strong, independent Earth female leads and strong-willed Tornian male leads that have been raised to protect females at all costs have trouble communicating as well, although that seems to be a human problem, too.
I really liked this book. Would love to read more about the other unmated males. What confused me about the series is that it’s backwards. Emperor Wray and Kim are in this book but their story comes after this one.
I rarely write a review. But this book was well worth a posting. It has everything you need, aa alien, stong woman from earth who needs to show an entire race what a woman’s love really means. The characters leave you wanting more. Enjoy!!
this was an excellent book. the heroine, Lisa was a bad ass who stuck up for herself and her children and didnt take any crap from any of the Tornian males. Which was good because they really needed a wake up call when it came to females. Carly and Miki, her daughters, helped keep the story from being too depressing and dramatic… they put in their light bubbly personalities and helped the story stay positive. Grim, being the galactic bad ass that he is completely melts around the girls as he learns what it means to be a father and i think he does a wonderful job. i really hope we see more of these two in the future.
I loved it! It had everything I love about a book.
Really enjoyed this book and could not wait to buy the others in the series, loved the way GRIM adapted to having human females in his house
I really enjoyed this book! I think that the editing could be a little better, a little tighter, but generally I really like this story.
Highly entertaining! Though I had some questions about how such a technologically advanced civilization seemed unable to apply their intelligence to social concerns or general psychology. Unbalanced doesn’t begin to cover it. Thankfully the heroine had refreshing common sense in the setting.
I enjoy sci-fi romance, and this story is filled with the differing cultures from both his and her perspectives. Great characters, great story!
I thought it had a good story to back it up. Good read, I hope you pick it up.
This is a good story with lots going for it, BUT cut and dry this is absolutely the worst example of editing that I have ever seen!!!! (And I read about a dozen books a week.) Wrong tense, character mix-up, words missing from the sentence, and so on, cause the reader to want to just put it down. These problems with editing are not just every once in a while, but every page.
Author, proof-read, rewrite, reedit, and resubmit it! Readers would really enjoy the plot, characters, romance and world building! If you paid someone to edit this ask for your money back. If you did it yourself take a city college class on grammar. Don’t let your TALENT go to waste!
Amateurish writing. The author kept mixing past and present tense and didn’t know how to use commas. It made gif very confusing and sometimes irritating reading. The concept was okay but I won’t spend money for another book by this author.
I enjoyed the characters and the premise that aliens are not too different from Earthlings .
It was just fun. Humorous even if predictable. A nice, easy read in the evening instead of TV.