For Women Only Sci-Fi Romance with an Alien Heroine and a Wounded Hero

Kin ambassador Fawni Ruh visits the capitol planet of the empire and meets security expert, Khyff, a human. A death in her family forces Fawni to return home, but she can't bear to part with Khyff and takes him along. To save his brother, Khyff must seduce and then betray an alien ambassador whose people devastated his family. But how can he touch her when such hatred for the aliens burns within him? He must find a way, for unless Khyff can learn to embrace the past, face the demons he swore he'd forget, and deal with his pain, his brother will die. Fawni's family demands she cast out the human, or abdicate her future rule. While searching for an answer, she stumbles upon Khyff's secret. The cover-up, if exposed, will betray her world to its enemies, and bare her family to open shame. Her duty is clear. She must shun this human. Yet how can she allow him to suffer in the darkness