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The Aurelian Dominion
Book One
Her DNA matched nothing on Earth. Someone from another galaxy has come to find out why.
Dr. Elara Marran has spent nine years searching for the early warning signs of postpartum depression and psychosis, driven by a loss she never speaks about. She checks everything twice. She trusts only what she can measure.
So when a strange region in her own genome refuses to match anything in any database on Earth, she writes it off as a glitch and uploads her data anyway.
Five days later, she's gone.
Kaelen Varos is a general of the Aurelian Dominion-a vast empire at war for three hundred years that has sworn, by an unbreakable law, never to go near a small, quiet blue world at the edge of a distant galaxy.
He was only testing a secret new ship when a banished vessel slipped past him in the dark, heading for that forbidden world.
He followed it.
When their paths collide on a dead moon, Elara is not waiting to be rescued. She's fighting back. And the man who kneels in front of her in the smoke, weapon lowered, is not what he seems either.
Now stranded a galaxy from home, Elara must decide who to trust, how far she'll go to protect the family she left behind, and what the people who took her want with her blood.
And Kaelen must decide how many of his own laws he's willing to break-and how many secrets he can keep from the one woman who refuses to let him decide anything for her.
A slow-burn, dual-POV sci-fi romance about consent, courage, and what it means to choose.
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🏆 #2 in Alien Abduction
🏆 Top 15 in SciFi Romance
Content warnings: abduction, suicide (past, off-page), perinatal mental illness, childbirth complications, violence and executions, past sexual violence (referenced, off-page), grief. Moderate sexual content.