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              Kels and Dergan returned to the cargo bay in silence, but in good spirits. The destroyer was putting distance between itself and the Earthers, who thus far didn’t seem to notice the Kalquorians had slipped through their fingers. The clanmates had reason to be optimistic.

              They entered the living area Pana had arranged for Maryam and slammed to a stop. All the air left Kels’s lungs as he stared at Maryam and Pana, frozen in the act of putting on their clothes.

              His riveted gaze took in the delicious pale swells of the Earther’s body, the fascinating splatter of freckles over her shoulders, chest, and arms. The bountiful pair of breasts. The intriguing triangle of red curls clustered over her mound. She was a mix of solid and soft, and Kels ached to touch all of her.

              Heat zapped straight to his groin. A strange weakness threatened to buckle his knees.

              Maryam’s paralysis snapped, and she snatched up the sheet on the sleeping mat to hide herself. It was too late. The vision of her gorgeous, nude body was burned on the Dramok’s retinas.

              Millions of thoughts crowded his head, each demanding immediate attention. Maryam had engaged in sex with Pana. Their mingled scent filled Kels’s nostrils, sending another burst of excitement to his loins. At the same time, he wrestled with the idea that Earther women weren’t intimate with men unless they were married to them—so did Maryam have strong feelings for his Imdiko? Why else would she indulge in carnal pleasures? What did it mean, if anything, for the rest of the clan?

Defying Earth laws and beliefs, putting her life in danger, Maryam carries the child of a grieving Kalquorian clan—and falls in love with men she can’t have.

Maryam left Earth’s repressive regime and her ruined dreams years ago. She lives on an alien space station, trying to forget her disappointments. Then a young, pregnant Kalquorian woman, seeking one last adventure, barrels into her life. High-spirited Briel reminds Maryam of all she’s given up on.

Matara Briel is soon followed to the station by her clan, three older men exasperated with her antics. Clan Kels has one mission: to reclaim their wayward lifemate. When the discovery is made that Earther women can carry Kalquorian men’s children and save their people from extinction, Dramok Kels is tasked with a new mission by his government: bring Maryam to Kalquor, by force if necessary.

Abducted, Maryam is determined to resist her kidnappers at every turn. Earth declares her corrupted and orders her execution for sinful relations with the Kalquorians, a charge she is innocent of. They attack the ship taking her to the Kalquorian Empire, leading to unthinkable tragedy—the death of Briel.

Discovering Dramok Kels, Imdiko Pana, and Nobek Dergan are not the ruthless enemies she believed them to be, Maryam makes a deal—she’ll carry their unborn child to term if they set her free afterward. However, she’s not prepared for the impossible love that explodes between her and Clan Kels, a love they dare not act on.

Or will they?

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