Gravity by Melissa West (
ISFDB) is the 1st in her The Taking series of YA sci-fi action adventures with f/m romantic elements starring a mostly human teen girl given military training by her father vs an alien teen spy, eventually teaming up in order to save one world or another, this installment setting up their initial interactions, free courtesy of publisher Macmillan's Entangled: Teen imprint.
This has previously been offered free earlier in 2015.
Currently free @
Amazon (available to Canadians & in the
UK) &
Kobo (available to Canadians). Price-drop-check linkage for
B&N (also
UK),
iTunes &
Google Play, where this will probably also eventually drop again.
Description
In the future, only one rule will matter: Don't. Ever. Peek.
Seventeen-year-old Ari Alexander just broke that rule and saw the last person she expected hovering above her bed -- arrogant Jackson Locke, the most popular boy in her school. She expects instant execution or some kind of freak alien punishment, but instead, Jackson issues a challenge: help him, or everyone on Earth will die. Ari knows she should report him, but everything about Jackson makes her question what she's been taught about his kind. And against her instincts, she's falling for him.
But Ari isn't just any girl, and Jackson wants more than her attention. She's a military legacy who's been trained by her father and exposed to war strategies and societal information no one can know--especially an alien spy, like Jackson. Giving Jackson the information he needs will betray her father and her country, but keeping silent will start a war.