Adrik: Titans 1

Ember and her sisters have known nothing but captivity, traded like commodities from one cruel captor to the next. But when a group of warriors known as the Titans rescue them, they're forced to reckon with a new kind of threat—one that comes in the form of the brooding, dangerous leader, Adrik. Despite the Titans' rough exterior, Ember can't deny their surprising decency, or her growing attraction to the Commander. But she can't afford to let her guard down. Not while her sisters' safety is at stake.

Adrik is no ordinary Titan. As a rare shadow Titan, he's dedicated his life to the service of his people, bound by duty and devoid of personal desires. Until he encounters Ember. Among the rescued females, one stands out: Ember's resemblance to a shadow female—a near-mythical rarity in his species. Shadow Titans are only allowed to mate with shadow females, and the dwindling number of such women has left Adrik with little hope for a future. Until now.

Caught between the ghosts of their past and the uncertain promise of a future with the Titans, Ember and her sisters must decide whether this unexpected refuge is worth the risk. But when another faction of ruthless galactic warriors offers to purchase the females, Adrik is faced with an impossible choice. One that leaves Ember wondering if he will sacrifice everything to keep her, or if his duty will demand he abandon her.

*This is book 1 in the Titans series. Each book in this series focuses on a different couple; they can be read as STAND-ALONES.

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Adrik's lips thinned into a grim line as he glared at the "cargo" being loaded onto his ship. He and his crew had intercepted a distress signal, and upon boarding the damaged vessel, they'd initially assumed the ship was abandoned. They'd been wrong. 

Eyes narrowing on the cage filled with humans, Adrik watched as his crew carefully maneuvered the cage into the hold of his ship, the Cressida. The human hostages whimpered, and it wasn't lost on him—or any of his crew—that the survivors were not only human but females. All females.

It'd been a long time since any of his Titans had seen a female. Worse, studies on their home planet, Cesca Sol, had shown that Titans were sexually compatible with human females. A few Titans had even coupled with human females, resulting in hardy offspring that held all the power and intellect of Titans with the diplomacy of their human mothers.

The thought of creating offspring had Adrik reaching down to adjust himself. He, too, hadn't had the pleasure of a supple female body for… Gods, how long had it been?