Lila, a geologist who trusts only the solid ground beneath her feet, wakes to a living nightmare. Abducted from Earth, she finds herself naked, bound, and a prisoner on an alien world, her only possession a shimmering silver sheath that leaves nothing to the imagination.
Around her, other human women weep, broken. But Lila's terror is forged with defiance. She's been brought here for a reason: to be sold as breeding stock in a galactic market. When a towering, horned alien warrior with eyes of gold and a body built for conquest singles her out, he becomes his prize. His price silences the crowd, his gaze a hypnotic promise of a dark, sensual future.
He is Varkis, a Klythari commander, and he didn't buy a slave to be broken—he bought a fire to be tamed. On his warship, she is no longer a prisoner, but a participant in a tantalizing and terrifying claiming. He vows to master her defiance, to honor her strength, and to own her pleasure. It's a game of control where every touch is a test, every command a temptation, and every moment of resistance is met with a thrilling, unspoken threat.
Trapped in a web of forbidden desire and primal fear, Lila's body begins to betray her mind, answering his raw power with a wanton heat she cannot control. But surrender comes at a price, and in this brutal new reality, being claimed is just the beginning of the agony and the ecstasy. She must survive not only her captor, but the very lust he has awakened within her.
