Bianca D'Arc
Also available in The Mammoth Book of Futuristic Romance anthology.,Please note, this is a SHORT STORY, not a novel.,Enemy Captain Fedroval â€“ Val for short â€“ shoots down a one-man fighter out near the Galactic Rim, but the pilot, much to his surprise and horror, is a human woman named Lisbet Duncan. The alien warriors have a strict code. In their culture, making war on females is a shameful stain on oneâ€™s honor. The captain doesnâ€™t quite know what to do with Lisbet, but he canâ€™t let her die alone in space. He orders his men to tow her life pod into their battle ship.,Val is the last of his line â€“ heir to a doomed legacy â€“ because no respectable jit'suku woman will have him after the destruction of his family. He has put all his considerable resources into building his state-of-the-art battleship and joining the fight to take the human galaxy, hoping to restore his honor in some small way. This is Valâ€™s first foray into human space and his first encounter with a human female. He finds her strangely alluring and altogether irresistible.,Lisbet is attracted to Val as well. When he puts the moves on her, she canâ€™t resist his masculine charm, but she doesnâ€™t like being a prisoner â€“ even if she is being kept in a gilded cage, treated more like a guest. She doesnâ€™t know a lot about jitâ€™suku culture and itâ€™s pretty clear they donâ€™t understand much about humans. Itâ€™s going to be fun educating her captor about just how headstrong, fierceâ€¦ and lovingâ€¦ a human woman can be.
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End of the Line