"Beautiful, engaging, and decadent. Mila's struggle with her nature and the loss of her people is so spectacularly written that her pain is your pain. There might even be a time or two you, like her, are tempted to give in to the smoldering temptation the alluring and indomitable Asher proposes. FIVE STARS!!!" -Addison Cain, USA Today Bestselling Author “Without your power, you are nothing.” His lips hovered too close, scant millimeters from… more. “You don’t know how lucky you are to be mine.” They came to conquer, to see the great city of Tritan on her knees. Her people in chains. I watched it all burn from a seat of untouchable power. Safe in the many arms of the forest as my heart charred black and the darkness took root. My sacred calling to a dead Goddess rejected, I am sustained by the forest's ancient, sleepy strength. Fed by wild ki, the whispers are soothed. The urge to savage the conquerors lays dormant, for not even he can touch me here, where my every whim is law. But Captain Asher Rawlings is a resourceful man, and though it’s been years since he’s so much as set eyes upon my face, he hasn’t given up the hunt for a rare and dangerous thing. He wants me. And he’ll never stop. Not until my knees are sullied and my skin is marked—and my limitless power belongs to him. But no matter how many times I fall, or how much I lose, he refuses to see the truth of the monster he's unleashed... After all... he's given me a thirst for vengeance...

With tensions between the Federation and Imperial 'Verses rising, one woman may hold the key to victory. The dangerous mission to smuggle her out of Imperial Territory falls to Daniel Haws and his team, The ultrasecret Phantom Corps. This elite squad of the Federation Military Corps is the only one trusted and skilled enough to remove her from under the watchful eye of her father, the Supreme Commander of the Imperial 'Verses. Carina is used to wearing a mask. Her father and his men think her little more than a pretty prixe to be won by a man more ruthless that the rest. When her father announces his intention to marry her to one of his henchmen-a man known for his cruelty- Carina knows she has to act as soon as possible to get away. But getting secret information to the Federation has served her well for years, and she appeals to them for help. She expected rescue from a man who'd been her enemy. But she wasn't prepared for how intense her attraction to Daniel Haws would be. Born as adversaries into different ranks, and now on the run for their lives, they need each other to survive-by holding on to the only thing they have in common: a growing desire that is dangerous, irresistible and insatiable . . . Praise for Relentless 'Dane delivers again!' Megan Hart 'Smoking . . . I couldn't turn the pages fast enough!' Jaci Burton

"I can give you everything," he whispered, smiling through the lie. All I had to do was kneel... The Caledonian forces come armed, yet offer peace. Spouting claims that they can deliver a new era—one of luxury and ease—they think to seduce. They promise our countries will thrive together, that they will save us from ourselves in exchange for Tritan's secrets, our expertise in the mystical arts of wielding ki. Partner with warmongers unaccustomed to being refused, or fall beneath their boots. These conquerors fool no one. They seek to leash my people and claim our priestesses for their own sick uses. But I will not kneel. Especially not to him. Captain Asher Rawlings. Powerful... Elite... Relentless... He's been tasked to hunt me down and dress me in chains—a mission he relishes, for with one taste of my lips, he hungers for my submission above all else... In an instant, the deadly secret I've been keeping for years is exposed to his attention. He knows what I am, what I might be capable of, and he's drawn to my fire... my ki... With a kiss, he feeds me whispers of a coddled life kneeling at his precious feet, his offer nothing more than the life of a cherished pet. But he won't have me or my ki, for his betrayal has given me strength even he didn't expect. Only one thing is certain—he'll either put me on my knees, or I'll kill them all.

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