title: Dex's Bride
author: Butler, R.E.
description: For a Norlanian soldier like Dex, losing the alien woman promised to him by the soul-walk was devastating to his self-esteem and his place in the Norlanian military.  He’s sure he’s meant to be alone for the remainder of his life.  When he’s tasked with finding a human woman who escaped from the government-owned brothel, he knows the assignment is meant to humiliate him, but he vows to bring her back to the brothel and work his way back to the top ranks.
  Bella would rather die running than live forever as a sex slave on Norlan.  When she escapes from the brothel, she knows it’s just a matter of time before she’s found and taken back to the living hell she was brought to after she refused to marry the alien who had her abducted from Earth.
  When an alien male saves her life, she knows her only chance to get away is to leave him fighting for his life, but she can’t walk away, even if it might mean that she spends the rest of her days as a slave.  Will Dex let her go or is saving him the biggest mistake she’ll ever make?