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Mileena of Outworld was forged in blood and royal betrayal, her veins pulsing with the uncontrollable, feral curse of the Tarkat disease. When the enigmatic G-Man plucks her from the brink of a brutal war, he doesn't drop her into a battlefield she knows-he drops her into the dystopian nightmare of City 17. Stripped of her crown and fitted with a restrictive, high-tech H.E.V. suit that keeps her hunger suppressed, Mileena is unleashed upon the Combine. She is a one-woman slaughterhouse, a jagged blade of rage cutting through alien oppression. But the suit isn't enough to keep her monstrosity at bay, and the G-Man's plan for a "new Freeman" is about to go violently off-script.
Enter Alyx Vance. Grounded, brilliant, and fiercely capable, Alyx is the only spark of light in Mileena's bleak new reality. As they fight side-by-side to topple an empire, their professional alliance fractures into something far more dangerous: a raw, primal obsession. In a world where one wrong move means death, they find salvation in each other's touch. As the Tarkat virus threatens to consume Mileena completely, she must navigate the terrifying intersection of her feral instincts and her growing, desperate need for Alyx. Can she accept that her "monstrosity" is not a flaw, but a source of power-and that her humanity is something she only finds in the arms of the woman who refuses to let her go?
CONTENT WARNING: This is an adult romance. Contains sexual content, graphic violence, dark themes, and intense power dynamics.