Author Description

She came searching for a cure. She found a warlord who would never let her go. Dr. Melodie Jaxxon was never supposed to fall through that portal. One moment she was tracking a pandemic that had ravaged the last strongholds of humanity. The next, she finds herself in a foreign realm-home to a race called the Awyans, where humans are rare, hunted, and never free. Her captor is Malec Talandros, a brutal war commander who doesn't speak her language, doesn't understand mercy-and doesn't let anything he touches go. When Malec imprints on her soul without realizing it, a bond is forged between them that neither can sever. But Melodie is no docile prize. She's a soldier, a scientist, and the last hope of a dying world-an epidemiologist burdened with finding the cure for the Covart-Virus, a disease that has wiped out 98% of mankind. As she searches for a way home, Melodie uncovers a horrifying truth: the cure she came for is hidden in the blood of the very male who holds her captive. Stripped of her autonomy, freedom, and even her name, she is renamed Allora-little dove-by Malec, her Awyan captor. Torn between escape and the slow-burning, volatile pull between them, Melodie must decide what she's willing to sacrifice-for her people, for her freedom, and for the elf who might be more monster than savior. Trapped between worlds, hunted by enemies, and tethered to a male who refuses to give her up, Melodie must decide what freedom is truly worth-and who she's willing to burn for it. A dark fantasy romance of obsession, survival, and the dangerous bond between predator and prey.