Portal Between Us

NASA scientist Lena Rios didn't plan to crash-land in a bioluminescent forest mid-royal childbirth. She definitely didn't plan to save a queen's baby and rewrite an alien tribe's oldest law.

Now Sa'Tel calls her guest. The king trusts her with his daughter. And Rhen, the river lord of Kai'Thren, trusts her with nothing - except the dangerous questions he asks late at night, standing too close, smelling like rain and kel'light.

Rhen burns atoms. He makes rivers flow uphill. He thinks in logic and war. But when he looks at Lena, his precision cracks. When he teaches her to read the water, his hands linger. When he calls her portah-born, it sounds less like an insult and more like a dare.

But Lena's portal is still open. Thren raiders want her dead. And in Sa'Tel, choosing love is choosing sides in a war.