Claimed by the Starbreaker

She was abandoned by the corporation that owned her. Rescued by the four aliens who refuse to claim her.

Xenobiologist Doctor Kira Vale knows exactly what she's worth to her employer: nothing. When her deep-space research station begins its death spiral, she's told to fix it herself or die trying.

Her distress beacon changes everything.

It doesn't summon a corporate rescue. It summons pirates.

But Torvyn, Lyrin, Vaelix, and Kaedren aren't the monsters she was warned about. They're Zorathi Knights-warriors sworn to protect those the corporations have oppressed, enslaved, and forgotten. They don't steal. They don't destroy. And they sure as hell don't take what isn't freely given.

What they do carry is an ancient biological bond called the Tether-a connection designed for five souls, not four.

And the moment Kira steps aboard the Starbreaker, it comes to life.
The Tether isn't ownership. It's a choice. A connection so deep it rewrites everything she thought she knew about love.

Now, Kira's recovering on a ship full of warriors who would burn the galaxy down before forcing her hand. But freedom has a price: a ruthless corporation hunting them all, a bounty on her head climbing by the hour, and an incomplete bond pulling them toward something terrifying and inevitable.

Kira must decide what she truly wants:

Running alone into the stars... or standing tethered to four men who see her as their equal, their anchor, their everything.