Orc's Forbidden Claim

I spent my entire life learning how to survive being watched.

Loving an orc could cost me the only identity I have ever known.

Losing him would cost me far more.

Saylor was born into the glittering upper tier of a generation ship, where every smile, mistake, and relationship became public property. Even after the ship crashes on Tajss, the old social rules refuse to die. Reputation is still armor, and Saylor has fought too hard to preserve hers to surrender it for anyone.

Then she meets Khiara.

The gruff Urr'ki warrior is everything she should fear. His people are the ancient enemies of the Zmaj sheltering the human survivors. His brother's human mate is shunned. Openly choosing him could turn Saylor into a scandal, a target, or both.

So she loves him in secret.

Khiara does not understand the rules keeping them apart. He knows only that Saylor is his dragoste, the soul-bonded mate he had stopped believing he would ever find. He will accept hidden meetings because she asks it of him, but he will never accept a life without her.

Then the Shaman's warriors tunnel beneath the Zmaj defenses and steal Saylor and her best friend, Wrenlee.

The kidnappers want human captives as leverage against the Zmaj. Saylor and Wrenlee are dragged toward the enemy city through a maze of deadly tunnels, where cruelty, hidden resistance, and one warrior's sacrifice blur the line between enemy and ally.

Khiara goes after them.

His only partner is Sek'su, Wrenlee's Zmaj mate and a warrior Khiara was raised to hate. To rescue the women they love, the two males must survive traps, tunnel collapses, and their own prejudice long enough to fight as one.

Finding Saylor is only the beginning.

An explosion buries the rescuers. A deadly underground predator poisons Sek'su. The safest route home runs toward the Shaman's stronghold, and the only cure lies inside the city where Khiara has been condemned as a traitor.

To save her best friend's mate, Khiara must risk execution and return alone.

To save the future they could have together, Saylor must stop measuring her worth through other people's judgment and claim the warrior who has already given her his heart.

Their love was born in secret.

Surviving it will require enough courage to let the whole world see.

Orc's Forbidden Claim is a steamy alien orc romance featuring secret lovers, a former socialite heroine, a gruff protective warrior, he-knows-first fated mates, dragoste, abduction and rescue, enemies forced to work together, dangerous underground survival, touch-her-and-die devotion, emotional healing, found family, and a guaranteed happily ever after while the larger Red Planet Dragons of Tajss saga continues.