Sebena has spent her time in the Alliance using her accuracy to blow large rocks into tiny rocks suitable for refinement. When she picks up a heat signature she has to pursue it, even if it means doing it on her own time. Finding a life pod is not really a surprise, but having it functioning and its occupant alive is quite the shock.Issul is the avatar of the planet Zeering and has been lost in the asteroid field for a century. Opening his eyes in the mining vessel, he sees his rescuer and both he and the world within him have a visceral reaction to her.
The heroine is a great gunner with an accuracy to shoot its target. This special ability of her helped her in her job back on Terra and it is the reason she was be able to join the volunteers that went in space. Her life changed when she saved an avatar that was lost in the asteroid field for century.
It was a good story with the heroine being calm, strong and brave. The world building and plot were also good.
A Terran gunner for the Alliance is “volunteered” as a mate for an angry planet’s returning avatar. Her job: handle the scheming, murderous greedy avian aliens who are about to trigger planetary ejection, while injecting love and joy into the avatar’s (and the planet’s) grim existence. A human, an alien, and a sentient planet make for a mind-bending triad. Hot! Hot! HOT!!
A planetary avatar story. The human heroine is excellent at targeting and is able to hold her own against others. This comes in handy both before and after she meets her mate.