Spacedock

MC POV: My boyfriend - who is now my husband - is an alien. No, really. I'm not insulting him! More than that he is apparently space royalty of some kind. Yeah, it took me a while to wrap my head around all of that also. So now everyone on the InfoSea (*cough* Alien Internet *cough*) knows me as the Barbarian Princess... for reasons. Obviously because I'm an Earthling and you know, the history of our people isn't exactly peaceful or non-conquer...y. Also because I talked my darling into making me a fully functioning pilot-able super robot/mech. I swear I didn't know any of it was real at the time! I'm not a warmonger. Just get rid of it? HOW COULD YOU EVEN SAY THAT?! - - - Narrative Version: An earth girl is told by her steady boyfriend that he is actually an alien that needs to leave for home, and he wants her to come along. To prove it, partially at her unwitting insistence, he crafts her an illegal war robot. They travel back, meet the family, get married… and then are separated in quick order. Every member of the royal family she married into has duties and she, for better or worse, was not permitted to be an exception to the rules just because of being an Earthling uninitiated to galactic culture. The story of how a retail saleswoman ended up managing a border colony spacedock light-years from all she knew. - - - AuthorNote: There sure are not many useful tags for this female-oriented sci-fi... I also apologize for the sickeningly sweet title, but it popped in my head so it's been the running one on this older work. It also looks kind of cool in the cover I mocked up, ngl.