If it is a war they want, then it is a war I’ll give them. Because I am Soledad, The Pirate, and I will not rest until my people have been set free.

Rejected by my mate, I set off in search of my lost sisters. Terrorizing the Ximerans in the process is just an added bonus.

In a cruel twist, it is my own mate they send to find me. And even though our passion burns as fiercely as ever when he finally catches me, I refuse to submit.

I will not simply roll over and show my belly to this brute of a man while my sisters and others like us are being hunted, our very nature twisted to be used against the innocent.

The game is on, my love. Accept me, all of me, and stand beside me in battle.

Or perish with the rest of your kind.

We thought they were our only hope. Our salvation. But now I fear they may be our destruction…

My mate has crossed solar systems to find me. I can sense him, even if I cannot reach him through our bond.

But when we finally come together, our union is nothing like I imagined. Despite our rising attraction, Dakar refuses to claim me as his mate until he rids the universe of the one responsible for the genocide of the Ximeran females — his own brother.

When my family is threatened, it becomes clear our paths are more intertwined than I ever realized. More, even, than just the lives of a shifter and her mate.

His war is my war. And convincing him to accept my mark may be our only hope of surviving the battle to come.

I am empress of a dying empire and the last of my kind.

My only hope of survival is to join the exodus to an unfathomably distant planet and accept a man I don’t know as my mate. Even the image of him tempts me, yet he can never know I’m not entirely human.

But someone has already learned the secret I’ve carried for so long, and it might cost us everything.