Stranded and Claimed on Xylo-Prime
(2026)(The fourth book in the Bonded by the Star-Gene series)
A Story by Zola Vale
Twenty-four days ago, the Consortium dropped me on a planet that eats people and told me it was a survey contract.
Then the jungle stops being empty.
I'm Calla Rednel. Xenobotanist, Frontier Research Station Twelve. I know the flora on this world better than the men who stranded me here, and that is the only reason I've lasted this long. Bloodvines strike on a four-count. Spore-sinks crust over a digestion pit. My Breather filters are down to hours, my resupply never came, and every tasking they send me runs straight through a kill zone.
Something walks my perimeter at night. Something lays a fresh sporewolf kill at my door like an offering. And when it finally lets me see it, the camouflage is already failing, patterns sliding off skin that can no longer hold them, because the one thing an ambush predator cannot hide from is his own mate.
His name is Syllas. He is the last of the Vethrin Grove. The Consortium burned his family to ash three years before they burned my name onto a file.
He runs cool as river stone in deep shade. Everywhere except the light under his skin.
The Consortium wanted to know what happens when you strand a woman beside a predator with nothing left to lose and wake up a gene she never knew she carried.
They're about to get their data.
Stranded and Claimed on Xylo-Prime is a scorching alien survival romance featuring:
Then the jungle stops being empty.
I'm Calla Rednel. Xenobotanist, Frontier Research Station Twelve. I know the flora on this world better than the men who stranded me here, and that is the only reason I've lasted this long. Bloodvines strike on a four-count. Spore-sinks crust over a digestion pit. My Breather filters are down to hours, my resupply never came, and every tasking they send me runs straight through a kill zone.
Something walks my perimeter at night. Something lays a fresh sporewolf kill at my door like an offering. And when it finally lets me see it, the camouflage is already failing, patterns sliding off skin that can no longer hold them, because the one thing an ambush predator cannot hide from is his own mate.
His name is Syllas. He is the last of the Vethrin Grove. The Consortium burned his family to ash three years before they burned my name onto a file.
He runs cool as river stone in deep shade. Everywhere except the light under his skin.
The Consortium wanted to know what happens when you strand a woman beside a predator with nothing left to lose and wake up a gene she never knew she carried.
They're about to get their data.
Stranded and Claimed on Xylo-Prime is a scorching alien survival romance featuring:
- A predatory alien hero who stalks his mate long before he touches her
A xenobotanist heroine whose head, not her rescue, is what keeps them both alive
One den, one hammock, and a jungle that wants them dead by morning
Biological camouflage, bioluminescent glow-lines, prehensile tendrils, and extreme size difference
Every book in the Bonded by the Star-Gene series features a new couple and a HEA.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Used availability for Zola Vale's Stranded and Claimed on Xylo-Prime