Of Magic and Mating (New Canton Republic) – Odessa Lynne Flitsaanbieding

Thousands of years haven’t been enough to bring an end to the conflict between humans and the aliens who share their world. But the last of the old Canton Wars has brought a fragile peace and the New Canton Republic’s been holding steady for more than a hundred years.
Thrace is one of the long-lived, shape-shifting aliens the humans call monsters, and he’s spent the last several hundred years living a reclusive life, protecting what’s his from humans who would rather see him dead.
Then Thrace meets Gregory, a…