She came to carry his child, not bare her soul. But now that he’s touched it, she doesn’t know if she’ll ever get it back.

Librarian. Surrogate. Survivor.

Isabella Greene didn’t plan to fall for the alien warlord assigned to her. She only came aboard the Starliner Amour to escape Earth’s crushing debt and repair her broken body. What she didn’t expect was to be matched with Drex Xarn—a battle-scarred Velkari warlord who sees her as more than a vessel. He sees her as his.

Her contract is clear: carry his child, receive a fertility cure, walk away free. But Drex doesn’t do clinical. Their first meeting ignites a psychic link, and when she touches him during a sacred Velkari ritual, it triggers a bond neither of them can escape.

Now, locked in a sensory feedback loop of desire, memory, and primal need, Isabella must choose: keep her defenses up, or surrender her body—and maybe her heart—to the alien male determined to claim her, completely.

What started as a transaction has become something far more dangerous.

This standalone novella in the Wombs 4 Warlords series contains sensory rituals, accelerated bonding, primal heat, breeding kink, psionic seduction, and emotionally complex alien claiming. It’s high-heat, high-stakes, and deeply intimate. All characters are 21+ and fully consenting. Each book in the series features a new couple, a different world, and a fresh warlord ready to fall. Can be read in any order.