Blood and Stardust

Surrounded by long-lived, elite alien species, human scholarship student Nova Vance feels agonizingly insignificant—especially to her devastatingly immortal crush, the Sanguinarian aristocrat Valerius. But when a cruel ambush by station bullies leaves Nova bleeding in the isolated lower decks, the scent of human blood unleashes Valerius's feral, predatory nature, forcing an explosive collision between deadly instinct and forbidden love.