Rogue Orbit by Sybur Phyre

Jovie
I’m desperate for a better life. Working two jobs isn’t ideal, but it’s the only way to save up for my ticket to the Alien Bride Race. Either I win a ton of credits, or I find a mate who actually wants me. I can’t lose.
When my sister started dating my ex, I knew I was done with this planet, so I set my sights on getting off of it. I’ve been kicked out of my apartment for late rent. My car only starts when it wants. And my best friend stabbed me in the back, which is why I’m stuck scrubbing toilets at night instead of flipping burgers after my starship manufacturing shifts.
But I’m not prepared to handle the giant purple electric alien who snatches me up during the race. He’s funny, smart, a bit of a prankster who keeps zapping me “by accident,” and a muscled machine built for combat. But he’s also at odds with his kind.
Prince Aurelius doesn’t want to take me home. I can’t see any reason they wouldn’t want him. I definitely do.

Aurelius
My Storm has been building since long before my father tried to match me. I’m just not interested in the affluent and entitled types he pushes. I want someone who’s lived life on the edge.
I enlisted young to avoid my father and have been in the field with the soldiers in rogue orbit, guarding the perimeter around our motherships for signs of Novark, Denarso, and Nebulous Empire ships. When I rejected the last match he tried to make over the holofeed, he told me he never wanted to see me again. The elders are angry. My kind are disappointed.
I don’t care.
I won’t mate with someone I don’t love or want. My kind has disregarded our Storms to maintain a hierarchy, and our numbers have declined in recent years. I don’t think it’s a coincidence.
After helping a friend under attack by bounty hunters and seeing him bond with his ABR match, I’m more eager for my chance to feel that connection. The trouble is, my father doesn’t know I’ve entered the race. He doesn’t think royalty should mate outside of our species.
His rules are suffocating. I want freedom. I want to feel the spark ignite like my ancestors once did.
The second my eyes fall on the curvy beauty charging out across the Alien Bride Race arena, I know this was the right decision. My Storm swells with a power that shocks even me. There’s something special about her.
She’s a sneaky female and slips my view a few times like she’s playing with me. I like a challenge. And I’m eager to make her mine.
But I must figure out how I’m going to make peace with my kind. I want her to be safe, not hunted. If they don’t accept her, we may have to go rogue forever. I just hope she doesn’t hold it against me or worse, reject me.

A steamy, fast-love, science fiction romance with cursing, violence, and action.