To protect the ones they love, they must first learn to trust each other.
The ketaurran war might be over, but it doesn’t mean the humans are safe. The work Cara does for the rebels is dangerous, but she likes what she does, and the independence it offers. Although her last mission was a success, it came with a deadly price. The mercenary she crossed wants her dead and is willing to pay a large bounty for the privilege.
Contrary to what the ruler of the planet thinks, the last thing Cara wants or needs is a bodyguard. Not only is Zaedon an elite warrior, but he’s all kinds of hot. If ever there was a male she could fall for, it would be him. Too bad their first encounter didn’t go well, and the male’s idea of fun is being overprotective and continually finding ways to annoy her.
Zaedon takes his role as guardian to his people’s leader seriously, the vow to protect Cara with his life even more so. The first time she taunts him with her alluring scent, he knows she is his mate—a fact he can’t share unless he wants to lose the infuriating female forever.
Note to readers: Each book in the Ketaurran Warriors series has a new romance and can be read as a stand-alone. The action, adventure, and story-line progresses with each book and enhances the reading experience if they are read in order. Here is the recommended order:
Jardun’s Embrace
Khyron’s Claim
Zaedon’s Kiss
Three weeks. That was all it had taken for Zaedon, the sexy ketaurran with a gorgeous smile and teasing personality, to get under my skin, to like him more than I should.
He made me want to punch him one minute and wrestle his clothes off the next. He was an elite warrior, a protector to the drezdarr—the planet’s version of a ruler—and if ever there was a male I could fall for permanently, it would be him.
Too bad allowing myself to get close to any male wasn’t something I could afford to do, not with the dangerous missions I undertook for Burke, the leader of the rebels who’d done his best to protect the humans during the Ketaurran War, and continued to work toward our survival afterward.
I liked my independence and volunteered because I’d seen too much death, suffered loss, and wanted to do my part to help, even if it meant putting my own life at risk.
READ MOREMy first encounter with Zaedon during the escape from the Quaddrien, a desolate area surrounded by rocky ledges the humans had nicknamed the wastelands, hadn’t gone well, and since then, he’d gone out of his way to annoy me every chance he got.
The only reason he’d accompanied me to my grandparents’ home in the farming community was because Khyron, the current drezdarr who’d brought an end to the war, had ordered him to be my personal bodyguard. Khyron, so unlike his uncle Sarus, the greedy, power-hungry male who’d caused the devastation in the first place, was intent on healing our world by uniting the humans and ketaurrans. It wasn’t going to be an easy endeavor, not when a lot of the surviving humans had a strong dislike for his people.
To be fair, Khyron hadn’t actually ordered Zaedon to come with me. He’d suggested with mild insistence, which amounted to the same thing. It hadn’t helped that I now had a bounty on my head or that my friends Laria, Celeste, and Sloane enthusiastically agreed with Khyron’s idea.
The bounty was courtesy of Doyle, a nasty mercenary whose sanity was highly questionable. I wasn’t sure what had angered him more, the fact that I’d managed to infiltrate his compound disguised as a boy for nearly a month without detection, or that I’d destroyed his lab so he couldn’t create any more of the deadly toxin he planned to use on the ketaurrans. Personally, I didn’t think either action was a good enough reason to want me dead.
I refused to spend the rest of my life hiding or worrying that Doyle’s males might eventually track me down to my grandparents’ place. Finding a way to get rid of the bounty and keeping the remaining members of my family safe, hopefully without dying, was my main priority once the harvest I’d come home to help with was over. The last thing I needed was another complication, and Zaedon definitely qualified.
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