Claimed by the Condemned Alien
(2026)(The first book in the Mates of the Condemned Worlds series)
A novel by Clarissa Lake
They declared her dead. Then they dropped her on a condemned world.
Kesta Frank was never supposed to survive Kharon-Veil. Officially, she no longer exists. In reality, she’s been abandoned on a brutal prison world where the descendants of condemned prisoners have built their own society—and where an unprotected woman can become someone else’s property.
Then Dreven For claims her.
Powerful, dangerous, and unmistakably alien, Dreven is a condemned commander with reasons of his own to distrust the empire that sent Kesta to his world. His claim offers her protection, but Kesta has spent too much of her life fighting for control of her own future to surrender it now—even to the male whose touch awakens a hunger she never expected.
Dreven tells himself the claim is only necessary to keep Kesta safe. But protecting the stubborn human woman quickly becomes something far more personal. He wants her trust. Her desire. And eventually, he wants the one thing a claim alone can never give him.
Her choice.
But something about their attraction is wrong.
As Kesta and Dreven uncover the truth behind the empire’s secret Helix experiments, they begin to question whether the desire drawing them together is truly their own—or another form of control.
Because Kesta’s arrival on Kharon-Veil was not an accident.
The empire chose where she would fall.
It may even have chosen who would find her.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Kesta Frank was never supposed to survive Kharon-Veil. Officially, she no longer exists. In reality, she’s been abandoned on a brutal prison world where the descendants of condemned prisoners have built their own society—and where an unprotected woman can become someone else’s property.
Then Dreven For claims her.
Powerful, dangerous, and unmistakably alien, Dreven is a condemned commander with reasons of his own to distrust the empire that sent Kesta to his world. His claim offers her protection, but Kesta has spent too much of her life fighting for control of her own future to surrender it now—even to the male whose touch awakens a hunger she never expected.
Dreven tells himself the claim is only necessary to keep Kesta safe. But protecting the stubborn human woman quickly becomes something far more personal. He wants her trust. Her desire. And eventually, he wants the one thing a claim alone can never give him.
Her choice.
But something about their attraction is wrong.
As Kesta and Dreven uncover the truth behind the empire’s secret Helix experiments, they begin to question whether the desire drawing them together is truly their own—or another form of control.
Because Kesta’s arrival on Kharon-Veil was not an accident.
The empire chose where she would fall.
It may even have chosen who would find her.
Genre: Paranormal Romance