General Lucien/General Beast is a badass Khin  and has quite the reputation. While meeting with some space mages, his distaste for cyborgs gets him in trouble with a curse. One that takes turn love to turn him and his crew back to their former selves.

Elle is a bioengineer who is really skilled and trying to make some extra money to pay for the treatment of her fathers medication. When the opportunity to travel for the first time and work on a ship of Cyborg comes up that will pay more than she makes in a year, she cannot pass it up. General Beast grumpiness is off-putting but Elle is still intrigued regardless of his cyborg parts. In her motivation to do what’s right for her father she put up with it, but feels a draw to him. 

I love the crew on the ship and how much of a hard time they give General Beast! I also loved that we got to see Valentina, who is from one of Starlings other alien romance series! The romance was sexy and the pull they felt towards each other added to the romance of two unlikely people. What he was willing to give up for her was just too perfect!