Veronica's Dragon - Ruby Dixon

Resonance.\n It’s a given on the ice planet, forced upon you by the parasitic symbiont called the ‘khui’. With resonance, a guy and a girl are paired up because they’ll make great babies. It’s a survival mechanism necessary for this sparsely-populated world we’re stranded on… and romantic, in a weird, alien way.\n Everyone expects resonance to happen when twenty newcomers are dropped onto the frosty world. I doubt anyone expects the gorgeous, golden god named Ashtar to resonate to someone like me, though. He’s fierce. Flirty. Powerful. Disgustingly handsome.\n I’m… not any of those things. I’m bland. Boring. Clumsy.\n But resonance seems to think we’d be great together. And Ashtar does, too…\n ___