I thought I survived the worst of the invasion…and then he showed up.

Aeko, a hulking alien male, with horns, bright red skin, and a stubborn insistence on calling me his mate. 

I'm not his mate. No way. You can't tackle a girl in an abandoned parking lot and expect her to marry you.

Except Aeko doesn't seem to understand that. And instead of talking about it, he throws me over his shoulder and hauls me out into the wilderness, away from the tenuous safety of my destroyed town, away from my friends, and away from everything I thought I knew about love.