Romancing Her Heart. Red Planet Fated Mates, #3

She came to save the settlement's generator. He came to keep the brilliant, impossible woman alive. Jean can fix almost anything. A failing motor. A jury-rigged generator. The fragile systems keeping a crashed generation ship from becoming an oven beneath Tajss's twin red suns. As one of the settlement's engineers, she is used to pressure, impossible deadlines, and people depending on her to make broken things work again.
But when the generator starts dying for good, the answer is buried in another section of the wreck, far across the desert. Jean has to go get it. Which means riding a barely tamed guster across hostile sands with the grumpiest Zmaj warrior alive as her guide. Cekpet prefers silence. Order. Duty. He does not need cheer, teasing, questions, or the constant chatter of the small human female who keeps trying to pry words out of him.
Jean is clever, fearless when she should be afraid, and far too good at making his dragon notice her. She should be a mission. Instead, she becomes his treasure. The desert gives them no room to hide from each other. Their mount nearly kills her. The suns punish every step. A sandstorm traps them inside the broken ship. A monster attacks in the dark. And somewhere between danger, laughter, and the way Cekpet keeps putting his body between Jean and everything that wants to hurt her, his restraint begins to crack.
Jean has always liked figuring out how things work. Cekpet may be the most fascinating puzzle she has ever met. But desire is not the only danger waiting in the wreckage. They still have to find the part before the settlement's generator fails, return across the burning desert, and warn the Council that the Eye's loyal warriors may not be finished with them. When enemies strike, Cekpet will have to choose between the caution that kept him alive and the female who makes him feel whole.
Jean came looking for a machine part. She may leave with a grumpy alien warrior's heart. Romancing Her Heart is a steamy alien dragon romance featuring a brilliant engineer heroine, a taciturn grumpy Zmaj warrior, forced proximity, desert survival, dangerous guster travel, shipwreck shelter, fated mates, protective devotion, found family, and a guaranteed happily ever after.