Try as she might, she can't get the past out of her head.
Her mind crowded with images of Doljen. Those initial lessons of seduction, where he never touched her intimately, yet somehow discovered the tricks that woke her desires. He’d broken the barriers one by one until she…she, Sister Bernadette, intractable terror of the aspirants…pleaded with him to make love to her. Later, she’d allowed him to fuck her in front of the other women, who’d witnessed her utter surrender.
The lessons hadn’t ended there, sexually or otherwise. Doljen had gotten in her head, forced her to admit to all she’d run from. He’d brought forth the woman she’d been, the woman she’d fought to leave behind. He’d made her embrace her truth once more, stripping her pretenses to leave her bare to her reality.
Funny. Though he’d hinted at his losses, she’d never discovered he’d run from his own truth. She’d known he’d abandoned his clanmates, but the circumstances had been hidden. She’d been caught up so much in her own revelations, she’d failed to pursue his full story.
Admit it. You never asked because you were basking in being the focus of someone you’d fallen for. An affair in which you were the chased instead of the lovelorn chaser.
Sometimes she hated that Doljen had made her so determined to maintain her truth. Since him, she’d told no lies to herself.
I love him.
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She searched for the man she couldn’t forget and found a shattered clan she couldn’t resist.
Captain Bernadette Miller was a nun on the moon Europa, hiding from a painful past. Now she hunts the galaxy for the Kalquorian who made her stop running from herself. When she gets a lead on his clanmates, she thinks her search is finally over. What she finds, however, is a clan devastated by broken promises.
Nobek Halmiko was once a star kurble player. Now he wanders space aimlessly, picking up jobs where he can find them, trying to forget the clanmates he let down. When Bernadette shows up asking questions about his missing Imdiko, he has nothing to say. But some women get in a man’s head. Some women don’t take no for an answer.
Dramok Tumsa had it all: a career he loved, the perfect clan, a troubled but talented brother he’d do anything for. Tragedy on the kurble field destroyed it all. Now his estranged Nobek is back, with a beautiful, hardnosed Earther captain who offers him an opportunity to make amends. Can he piece his clan together again? Does he deserve the chance?
Imdiko Doljen is wracked by guilt. He’s hidden from those he let down…including a woman he couldn’t keep. When she shows up in the company of his clanmates, old hurts ignite anew. It doesn’t matter what he wants; he can’t fix the mistakes he made.
The only path to regaining the love Bernadette lost means healing this shattered clan. Is she ready to commit to three men instead of the one she came for? When disaster strikes, she has to call on all the strength she possesses to stop them from falling apart for good.
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