Surrendering Her Heart

She has survived by never surrendering.

He is the warrior who makes surrender feel like strength.

Ava does not do helpless.

She does not panic, does not wait to be rescued, and absolutely does not need a towering Zmaj warrior hovering over her shoulder like a crimson-scaled storm cloud with wings. The Order is coming for the desert settlement, hundreds of survivors have to be moved before the next attack, and every sled, supply pack, and weapon could mean the difference between life and death.

Ava has work to do.

Zamis is very much in her way.

Huge, golden-eyed, and far too calm in the middle of disaster, Zamis looks at Ava as if he can see every tremor she refuses to show. He calls her fragile. She calls him insufferable. Then the Order attacks, and Ava proves she is more than capable of putting a knife where it belongs.

Unfortunately, surviving one battle is only the beginning.

The evacuation becomes a nightmare across Tajss's brutal desert. A sandstorm swallows the horizon. Guster hunt through the grit and darkness. A monster beneath the dunes turns the ground itself into a death trap. Ava keeps pushing forward because stopping means people die, and she has already lost too much to fail now.

Zamis stays beside her through all of it.

Not because he thinks she is weak.

Because his dragon knows she is his treasure.

Ava does not know what to do with a male who protects without dismissing her, follows when she leads, and holds steady when old rage, grief, and fear threaten to crack her open. Every step closer to safety makes him harder to resist, and every impossible danger makes one thing terrifyingly clear: surrendering to Zamis does not mean giving up the fight.

It means she does not have to fight alone.

But the Order is not finished. The battle for survival uncovers a human traitor, a secret that shatters everything the Zmaj believed about their past, and a warning of an enemy coming for Tajss that may be worse than anything they have faced before.

Ava has spent her life surviving with clenched fists and a sharp blade.

Now she will have to risk the one thing she has guarded most fiercely.

Her heart.

Surrendering Her Heart is a steamy alien dragon romance featuring a fierce hyper-independent heroine, a protective Zmaj warrior, fated mates, enemies-to-allies sparks, desert evacuation survival, sandstorm danger, monster attacks, Order battles, found family, endgame series revelations, and a guaranteed happily ever after.