Caroline Jane (CJ) Ellison is a gifted stock market analyst. When a deal on Wall Street goes wrong, she has no choice between prison and the Interstellar Bride Program. She leaves. She leaves Earth, her past and her mistakes behind. Her decision is a logical one, not an emotional one. Until she wakes up on another world, next to a giant Atlan Battlelord: her assigned mate, who refuses to accept her.
Battlelord Rezzer is contaminated. Weakened. He was captured by the Hive, and there his soul was stolen from him, his very own beast. A mate is out of the question until he can become what he was born to be: a beast, her mate, her protector. Forced into the Bride Program against his will, Rezzer has no intention of taking possession of the beautiful, rebellious woman when she arrives on the colony. The Hive had taken his Beast, but not his honor. He vows to give her to another, a worthy man, a Beast who is unharmed—not hunted by the Hive, not part of a dangerous new experiment to win the war.
CJ takes one look at the wounded warrior and knows she can never let him go. He is hers now, her perfect match. And if that means seducing the Beast or standing up to the Hive to save him...that's exactly what she'll do. She's lived by the rules her whole life. Now, with everything at stake, it's time to break them.
