If you've read
Ravyn's Flight you know Alex is very closed, afraid to risk himself. In the spin off book, he and Stacey are the secondary romance again and I've reached a point where he realizes he has to woo her if he wants to keep her. Only Alex doesn't woo. It's more like a siege. I just can't figure out what, exactly, he'd do--and he's not talking. Sigh.