Accidentally Vital

A woman whose whole job is the patients everyone else gave up on. A grieving warrior prince out of time and out of options. And a galactic temp agency that, as usual, abducted entirely the wrong human.

Tabby Renner has spent eleven years as “just the tech” — the one who sits on cold clinic floors gentling the animals no one else can touch, doing the work that saves the patient and never once getting credit for it. So when a wall of white light yanks her four hundred light-years across the galaxy and a cheerfully bureaucratic alien congratulates her on her “selection,” she’s sure there’s been a mistake. There has been. A whole kingdom of enormous cat-shifting warriors spent the last of their treasury on the finest healer money could buy, and the universe shipped them her.

Their king is dying, their court is panicking, and their prince is the most infuriating combination of devastating and impossible she’s ever met — all rigid warrior pride wrapped around a grief he won’t let anyone see. Ryhn is certain that strength is the only language that love speaks. Tabby knows better. She has thirty days, a deadline she didn’t choose, and exactly one skill — walking into the worst room on the planet and refusing to be afraid. It might be enough to save a kingdom.

It definitely isn’t enough to keep her from falling for a man she can never, ever be allowed to keep.

? Competence kink
? Touch-her-and-die warrior
? Grumpy/sunshine
? Fish-out-of-water alien romance
? Forced proximity
? A ticking 30-day clock
? Found family
? He falls first

Heat Level: Steamy / Open Door
Vibes: Warm, funny, achingly tender, emotional
Setting: A feline-shifter citadel, four hundred light-years from Ohio
Guaranteed HEA · Standalone · No cliffhanger · Read in any order

Some of the best things show up looking exactly like a mistake.