a human woman and a non-human male, Open Door, Explicit. · Halgren Reach
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For fourteen months he has been the best voice on her night shift. She never once wondered why he only ever used his voice.
Anneke Vos is the whole of Halgren Reach's night dispatch — one clerk, one board, one handset, and a Cadresh hauler pilot she has never laid eyes on. Berth times, weather off the treaty line, slow talk at three in the morning. The best hours of her week, and she has told nobody.
Then a contamination flag seals them both into a two-bunk quarantine cabin for fourteen days: four feet of floor, thirteen-hour shifts running a collapsing dock off a handset, and a man built like a bulkhead who plants himself at the far wall and will not come nearer.
The harbour clerk is the one who finally says it out loud. Among the Cadresh, a whole sentence is spoken with a hand on the listener. Voice alone is what you use with strangers — and with anyone you have no standing to touch.
Every careful, courteous, professional year of it. She was so proud of that radio manner. It was the wall.
An open-door alien romance: a curvy heroine at home in her body, an enormous hero who has been holding the furthest distance his people have, and one sentence she has to say where the whole station can hear it. HEA. Perfect for fans of Ruby Dixon and Tiffany Roberts.
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