Bride of the Savage Alien - Survivor Brides of Tajss #2

About the Book

First the plants died. Then the hunters. Now the desert itself is turning against us.

Something is poisoning Tajss.

Plants wither where they once survived. Hunters fall sick without warning. The contamination is spreading through the desert, threatening every human, Zmaj, and Urr’ki still clinging to life beneath the planet’s twin suns.

As the settlement’s overlooked young botanist, I may be the only person who can discover what is happening.

No one has ever considered me brave.

They are about to send me into the wasteland anyway.

My escort is Rakkh, a lethal Zmaj warrior who looks more comfortable facing monsters than speaking to me. He lives for battle, trusts his weapons more than anyone around him, and has no interest in companionship.

At least, that is what he wants me to believe.

Rakkh calls me quiet.

Fragile.

A responsibility he never asked to carry.

But the deeper we travel into the poisoned desert, the more difficult it becomes for him to dismiss me. Every sample I collect brings us closer to the source of the contamination. Every danger we survive reveals another piece of the fierce code of honor beneath his savage exterior.

And every time he touches me, the bond growing between us becomes harder to deny.

Enemies stalk us beneath the sand.

Mutated beasts attack without warning.

Ancient alien technology hums beneath our feet, connected to a secret that could explain why Tajss itself appears to be changing.

We must follow the contamination into territory neither of us may survive.

Rakkh believes his strength can protect me from anything the desert sends against us.

I know the greatest threat may already be buried beneath the dunes.

To save the three races of Tajss, we must uncover the truth before the poison spreads beyond our control.

But surviving the wasteland may be easier than resisting the savage alien warrior who has decided I am the one person he cannot afford to lose.

Bride of the Savage Alien is the second full-length novel in the Survivor Brides of Tajss series. It features an underestimated botanist heroine, a lethal Zmaj warrior, forced proximity, fated-mate tension, dangerous desert exploration, mutated alien beasts, ancient technology, a spreading ecological mystery, high-stakes survival, and a bond forged under fire.