Healing Her Heart

She thought loving again would betray the man she lost.

He is patient enough to prove healing is not betrayal.

Desiree has spent a year surviving on Tajss, and most days survival is the easy part.

The wrecked generation ship is shelter now. The red-and-white desert is home. The graveyard outside the ship holds the friends, strangers, and loved ones the crash and this brutal planet have taken from them.

Including Dav.

As the settlement's Minister of the Faiths, Desiree knows how to comfort everyone else. She knows what words to offer, how to hold grief gently, and how to keep people moving when the twin red suns, dwindling supplies, and constant danger make hope feel foolish. But the one heart she cannot seem to heal is her own.

Then the transport arrives from across the ocean.

It brings other human survivors. It brings warnings about the Order. And it brings Rhuklyv.

Huge, silent, winged, and impossible to ignore, Rhuklyv is a Zmaj warrior who left the corrupted Order behind and crossed the desert with the others searching for safety. The moment he sees Desiree, something in him recognizes her. His dragon knows the truth before either of them has the words to explain it.

She is his treasure.

Desiree should be terrified of him. She should be cautious. She should absolutely not want the alien warrior who looks at her as if her broken heart is something sacred rather than ruined.

But Rhuklyv does not demand that she forget Dav.

He follows her to the graveyard and honors the man she lost. He offers comfort when language fails them. He holds her while she finally grieves instead of pretending to be strong for everyone else. And bit by bit, Desiree begins to wonder if the universe has not taken her future after all.

Maybe it has brought her another kind of love.

But Tajss does not give without testing. The settlement is fragile, supplies are limited, the Order may still be hunting, and the arrival of the first human-Zmaj baby proves the future is possible and dangerously vulnerable.

Desiree has spent a year believing her heart was buried with her husband.

Rhuklyv is ready to show her it was only waiting to beat again.

Healing Her Heart is a steamy alien dragon romance featuring a grieving widow heroine, a patient protective Zmaj warrior, fated mates, love after loss, language-barrier intimacy, desert survival, found family, healing grief, and a guaranteed happily ever after.