Dark Lighthouse (Alysha Forrest Book 4)
After ferrying supplies to thirty-nine space stations, First Commander Taylitha Basil of the UAV Stardancer is ready to move on to something less dull... but it turns out the station commander at their final stop is a great sword-fighter, funny, handsome, interesting...
...and also human, one of the species that engineered her own race long ago. What do you feel about the people who played God?
A short story in the Pelted setting.