The Alpha...and Lollipops‪?‬

He protects his kingdom, she might just be his sweetest distraction

Lolly Walters crossed worlds to hug her daughter. Becoming a fearsome Alpha's prisoner was not on the itinerary.

Neither was finding him attractive.

At fifty-three, the Minneapolis nurse knows how to handle difficult men. Give them instructions. Ignore the growling. Call them sweetheart when necessary.

Varek Anisette is discovering this firsthand.

The Alpha of the Bitter Reach will do anything to save his dying people...even take an outlander captive. He expects fear. Resistance. Perhaps a screaming fit.

He gets a woman with a purple purse who orders him to hand over his frostbitten fingers.

Lolly promised she wouldn't fight him. She said nothing about obeying him.

As she tends his people, questions his healers, and turns his hall upside down, Varek begins to suspect the most dangerous thing about his prisoner isn't where she came from.

It's how badly he wants her to stay.

But Lolly has spent a lifetime caring for everyone else. Wanting something for herself...especially a man who needs her...is unfamiliar territory.

And in a land where survival demands everything, falling in love might be the one risk neither can afford.

Good thing she doesn't scare easily.