Treasured by the Alien Maverick by Presley Hall

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

He’s on a mission. I’m on the run. But when our fates collide, everything changes.
After escaping from the cruel alien trader who kept me captive for years, I’ve been hiding out on a massive ship full of alien warriors called Zivonians. I’ve even found the perfect hiding place: a smaller ship tucked away in the docking bay.

Except… maybe my hiding spot isn’t that good after all.

How was I supposed to know that one of the Zivonian warriors would steal a ship so he could go on a dangerous mission to track down his lost brother? How was I supposed to know he’d pick the exact same ship I did?

Now I’m stuck hiding in a closet on a tiny spaceship with a muscled, cocky alien I don’t know or trust.

And when he finds out he’s got a stowaway on board…

I have no idea what he’ll do with me.

Treasured by the Alien Maverick is a full-length standalone sci-fi romance featuring a daring hero desperate to reunite his family and an emotionally wounded heroine who rediscovers her inner strength.

If you like sexy aliens, sweeping adventure, and steamy romance, you’ll love this series. No cheating, no cliffhanger, and a happily ever after guaranteed!

Treasured by the Alien Maverick

Exciting space adventure!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💚🖤❤️💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏🌍
Character development: ☺️😊🙃
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Cassidy – she was working in Chicago on a new collection of photos for a gallery she wanted to open when aliens came upon her and abducted her. The aliens implanted a translator chip in her head and sold her as a Terran slave to an evil crime lord. Though he lived in a palace, it was a prison to her, and he was a cruel master. She escaped from him and stowed away on a huge ship owned by another race of aliens called the Zivonians.

The Hero: Nyx – He is not able to sleep no matter what he does. He walks the ship at night with the thoughts of his decimated home planet and the brothers he lost. He has lived on the Oasis for five years now. The Oasis is the only ship that escaped the devastation on his planet with about one hundred of the only Zivonians left alive. Rok, one of his brothers whom he thought was lost, had found the Oasis. Now Nyx can’t stop thinking of Akos, his other brother, and hoping that he might be alive as well.

The story: Cassidy had been hiding aboard the Oasis for days. She had been sneaking around the ship, stealing bits of food left over from the dinners served to the Zivonians. She finally decided to try to take one of the smaller ships in the hanger bay, so she would oversee her own destiny instead of having to sneak around. She was of course, being an idiot. First of all, she is not a pilot, so I don’t know how she thinks she could fly an alien ship. Secondly, she already knows that human women are seen as nothing more than pleasure slaves owned throughout the galaxy, so where does she think she will go? And thirdly, she most likely has no idea how to navigate, so how does she think she will find anything at all in the vastness of space?

Luckily, after Cassidy sneaks on board a smaller ship, Nyx decides to go out and try to find his brother Akos. He happens to pick the ship Cassidy is hiding aboard and immediately takes off. When Nyx finally finds her, he is pretty nice about it and offers to find a smuggler to take her back to Earth after they land on the planet where he is contacting someone. Though I could see it coming a mile away, a smuggler willing to accept payment to take her to earth is about as trustworthy as a fox in a henhouse. Plus, even if she did make it back to Earth, wouldn’t she always be afraid that aliens would come back and capture her again?

This is one of those journeys where the main characters seem to keep jumping from the frying pan into the fire over and over again. There is a lot of danger and plenty of action. The two main characters come together in the midst of intense circumstances. I was on the edge of my seat for much of this book, expecting them to get caught at any moment. It was quite exciting.

This audiobook was narrated in dual points of view via dual narration. Stephanie Kay and C.J. Grey narrated the audiobook and do a nice job. C.J. Grey has a deep, gravelly voice and speaks in a slow tempo which works well for an alien romance. Stephanie Kay has a youthful sounding voice, and sounds very natural, not like she is reading. She is great at sounding anxious.

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