Crown

I proposed a marriage of pure strategy. I did not plan on chasing my own wife.

Darik of Vorjan House holds final authority over the trade agreement, the weight of an entire noble line, and a simple plan: marry an Earth woman, prove his people's commitment to the alliance, and manage the whole affair with his usual flawless control.

Then he proposes to Beka.

She hears him out. She asks questions he isn't prepared for. And she agrees — on one condition. Equal partnership and genuine respect, or there's no deal. Then she goes back to work, and Darik realizes he's just been dismissed for the first time in his life.

Beka clawed her way free of a family that tried to own her and built a life entirely her own. She doesn't need Darik's rank, his protection, or his approval — and she hasn't so much as noticed that the most powerful man on the station has started rearranging his schedule just to be in the same room as her.

The marriage was supposed to be a performance. Neither of them planned on it becoming real.

A marriage-of-convenience, he-falls-first sci-fi romance and the trilogy finale — Book 10 of the Most Wanted Alien Brides: Intergalactic Dating Agency.