Sabrina: Good guys save the day and criminals go to jail. It’s not rocket science, people. But then my father’s killed, I’m rescued by a thief, and my worldview is shattered. He takes me to his penthouse. His bed. I don’t have to like it but I can’t help it. His touch is everything a good girl like me shouldn’t want. Anson: Good and bad mean nothing to a master thief. I take what I want, and what I want is vengeance. No more, no less. Maybe the girl can help, so I’ll hide her. Protect her. And if I have to manhandle her to keep her quiet, she’ll deal. Hell, she might even like it. But she’ll learn fast that I make the rules.**

When Carina volunteers to travel to Avalere on a spying mission, she is surprised by how primitive it seems in comparison to her home planet Freanoss. She hopes to blend in with the local women, but her mission quickly takes a disastrous turn after she is caught with a weapon and recognized as an infiltrator.Carina is saved by the intervention of the warrior king Aldric, and though he is unlike any man she has met before, she cannot help falling in love with the handsome barbarian. But if she chooses to return to her own world one day, will her people welcome her back?

Svali Living on the dark mining planet of Kleedan, I saw only a bleak future. I sold my body to the men of Avalere, but it wasn’t enough. I needed to do more. Desperate, willing to sacrifice anything to feed my mother and sister, I pretended to be one of the pure women of The Circle trained to be mated to the warriors. In so doing, I tricked the formidable Duke into marrying me. He must never learn of my deception, or my family and I are doomed. Idan I scorned the very idea of “love,” only agreeing to the utilitarian institution of marriage to better serve my people. I did my duty and claimed a woman, drawn to her beauty and purity. It was not long after the marriage ceremony I discovered her lie. She will pay dearly for deceiving me. Marked by me, she will learn to call me master.