Niki Nguyen died in Hell's Kitchen. Shot by dealers, broken by captivity, sold to aliens who saw her as nothing more than inventory. But the Alliance pulled her back from the edge of oblivion, and now they're offering her a second chance. A dangerous one. They want her to become the first human operative for Asad Intelligence, and they've got one mission in mind: infiltrate a criminal planet, extract the tortured son of the Alliance Prime from his captors, and bring him home.
Enslak has been a prisoner for a century. The Ulkommenian experimented on him, broke him down piece by piece, left him so fractured that his own family believes he's already gone. They're ready to grant him the koa ukufa, a mercy death. But when Niki looks into his gold eyes, she sees something the Alliance missed. She sees a man still fighting to survive, buried so deep under trauma that no one else thought to dig.
She can't let them kill him. So she steals him.
On a hidden paradise world, something unexpected happens. In the quiet moments between heartbeats, in the careful way he learns to touch her and the fierce way she refuses to let him disappear, two broken people begin to heal. They build something real. Something that feels like home. Something that feels like forever.
But the Ulkommenian are still hunting. And the Alliance will never accept what Niki and Enslak have become to each other… especially if they’re still determined to kill him.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Enslak has been a prisoner for a century. The Ulkommenian experimented on him, broke him down piece by piece, left him so fractured that his own family believes he's already gone. They're ready to grant him the koa ukufa, a mercy death. But when Niki looks into his gold eyes, she sees something the Alliance missed. She sees a man still fighting to survive, buried so deep under trauma that no one else thought to dig.
She can't let them kill him. So she steals him.
On a hidden paradise world, something unexpected happens. In the quiet moments between heartbeats, in the careful way he learns to touch her and the fierce way she refuses to let him disappear, two broken people begin to heal. They build something real. Something that feels like home. Something that feels like forever.
But the Ulkommenian are still hunting. And the Alliance will never accept what Niki and Enslak have become to each other… especially if they’re still determined to kill him.
Genre: Paranormal Romance