Nightbloom

Once a year, the whole jungle lights up. Tonight, two of them want to light her up too.Dr. Juliet Ferreira is thirty-four, a curvy, stubborn Earth botanist with long dark curls, warm olive skin and a habit of going perfectly still whenever the ringed giant rises over the moon she has been surveying, alone, for eight months. Her relief ship comes in sixteen weeks. She has a lab full of samples, a notebook full of questions, and a secret she has never said out loud.Kaedren and Torvash are the two wardens who have walked her through the jungle since her first week. Kaedren is deep blue, silver-marked and formal, with long black hair worn loose down his back and a habit of correcting her verbs. Torvash is charcoal gray and copper-marked from his shaved scalp to his chest, short black beard, built like a wall and always laughing at her. They are towering, shirtless, devoted to each other, and completely off limits.Until they show up at her door at dusk with a sapphire silk gown and an invitation.On Nightbloom, a Vaskari may ask. It is only ever a question, and no is always an answer. But under the glowing flowers and the enormous planet, with one of them holding her waist on either side, Juliet is about to find out exactly what they have been waiting five months to say, and exactly how much of both of them she can take.One night. Two very patient men. And a choice to make before the flowers close.