Claimed: Book 1 in the Brides of the Kindred

She was taken from Earth to marry a beast. Now one month in his bed may ruin her for every human man alive.

Olivia Waterhouse has just graduated nursing school when she's drafted to become the bride of a Kindred warrior—a towering, battle-scarred alien with golden eyes, a brutal past, and a body built for sin.

Baird doesn't want a female who fears him. Olivia doesn't want to be taken from Earth and handed to a possessive alien male who expects her to stay at his side forever.

But Kindred law gives them one month to decide.

Thirty days.
 Three ritualized weeks of escalating intimacy.
 No escape from the heat building between them.

First comes the Holding Week, where touching under the clothes is forbidden—but everything else is fair game.
 Then the Bathing Week, where privacy disappears and every inch of skin is exposed.
 And finally the Tasting Week... where Baird is done pretending he doesn't hunger for his reluctant bride.

Olivia is angry, wary, and determined to resist him.
 Baird is growly, possessive, and absolutely certain she belongs with him.

As the ritual pushes them closer, resentment turns to desire—and desire becomes something far more dangerous.

Because once Olivia gives in to the massive Beast Kindred who was chosen for her, she may never want to leave.

Claimed is the steamy first book in the Brides of the Kindred series, featuring a scarred alien warrior, a reluctant curvy heroine, forced proximity, fated-mate vibes, slow-burn seduction, explicit spice, and a guaranteed happy ending.