Explode — Teresa Noelle Roberts

Their chemistry's explosive. Too bad someone wants to blow them up. Cat-girl space racer Sarr'ma Settazz's plan: Enter the reality show The Great Space Race. Hide she's also an engineer. Steal super-secret technology. Win. Easy-peasy bloxfruit squeezy! Falling for her grumpy, overprotective, smoking-hot human race teammate? Not in the plan. Miner Tripp Gallifer's plan: Enter The Great Space Race. Protect his playful cat-girl teammate while she handles the actual flying. Win. Pray the psycho who kidnapped his sister will honor their bargain: Tripp keeps silent about the crime and hands over the prize money, and his sister goes free. Falling for the brilliant female he glimpses behind Sarr'ma's bouncy façade? Not in the plan. Then the kidnapper ups the game to attempted murder and all secrets must be revealed -- including their feelings. Sarr'ma and Tripp concoct a scheme worthy of the wildest reality show to save Tripp's sister and themselves. But they'll need to trust each other to pull it off. Will their love be enough to let them win the biggest prize of all?