When Dr. Lyra Voss, a xenolinguist aboard a deep-space research vessel, is taken by an alien warship, she wakes up surrounded by a civilization whose language no human has ever heard. Except she understands one word of it before anyone gives her the tools to understand any. What follows is the story of two people from opposite sides of an impossible distance who spend eighteen days across a study room table, giving each other the language for things neither of them had words for before. Commander Zarak is precise, controlled, and has not wanted anything for himself in forty years. Lyra leaves everywhere before places can require something of her. Neither of them is prepared for what happens when someone finally sees them clearly. Her Intergalactic Captor is a slow-burn, steamy sci-fi romance about the space between capture and choice, the moment after looking when what you have seen becomes permanent, and the specific courage it takes to stay somewhere long enough to find out what happens if you do.