Book Review: Water World Warrior by Lisa Lace (TerraMates Book 1)

      Ashlyn has taken care of her brothers since she became their sole guardian at 18 and even before that helping her mom out since her dad left at 9. She was a strong, smart, and beautiful woman who had put her dreams of being an ecological scientist on hold in order to take care of her family. She did this by working as a dressmaker, and they managed to stay afloat. That is until her brother takes up gambling in an attempt to go the easy way and puts them in debt to some very shady people in the amount of 300,000 credits.
     Nathaniel is a very well-off ecological science on a planet that is 88% water, with that number growing every day. He has an idea to make the world continue to be habitable. The problem is with supply ships being diverted to the rich rather than to those who lost their homes due to the rising water he must take actions into his own hands. In doing so he must now have a wife in order to stave off the police after a lie he told.
     Ashlyn is in it to help her family and Nathaniel is trying to stay out of jail so he can help his planet. Can the pair use their combined knowledge to not only save the planet, but also be happy together? Or will this marriage be nothing more than a one year marriage of convenience?
     I started by reading book 5 in this series, but everything I had read about the other books told me that although I didn't like that book very much it was a stand-alone and to not judge the rest of the series by that one. I am glad that I listened as I thoroughly enjoyed this book. In this book we follow a woman who is doing everything possible to protect her family from debtors and a man who is doing everything to save his planet and it's inhabitants. They just have to survive each other for one year in order to solve most of the problems. But maybe together they can solve all of the problems along with some they didn't even know they had.
     If you are looking for a pirate romance then enjoy this one. I may be getting the others in the series eventually.
This book is available on Amazon for $2.99 at https://amzn.to/2ZfLGtu.