SOLVED. Sci fi series where a human on a family type starship bonds with a light creature when its original alien host dies.

[Jesi]

I'm fairly sure this is a series. I remember bits and pieces. There is a ship, I think it's family run and is a cargo ship. There is an alien race that I think is described as smelling like cinnamon. There is an amorphous entity tied to one of the aliens. The alien dies and the entity is forced to bond with a human male.

Either late in that book, or later in the series, if it is a series, the human ship ends up in a region of space where they get "stuck". Their engines either don't work or can't get free of the space. Come to find out that region of space is an entity that used to be bonded to the amorphous entity that bonded with the human. The space entity teaches the bonded entity how to release the human without killing him. The 2 entities go off together.

I think I read this back in high school, so between 2000-2004, but the book may be older, I don't know.

[Jesi]

The name of the books are Mind Light and Minds Apart, by Margaret Davis

[Bargle]

Links for the books.
Mind Light
Minds Apart
Margaret Davis