He was conditioned to protect her.

The bond becoming real between them may be the one thing his captors could not control.

Leena escapes captivity beside a warrior who does not know where the commands in his mind end and his own choices begin.

Kaelreth is Drazan's long-lost elder brother, a powerful Zmaj stolen, altered, and shaped by off-world experiments. His captors built false danger signals around Leena until every instinct inside him screams that she is under attack.

Taking her feels necessary.

Guarding her feels like survival.

Wanting her feels dangerously real.

Leena should fear the warrior who refuses to let her out of his sight. Instead, she sees the battle happening behind his eyes. Kaelreth is not cruel. He is trapped inside training designed to turn devotion into control and protection into a weapon.

Their escape forces them into constant proximity while enemies hunt them and Kaelreth's conditioning grows harder to separate from reality. Every sound could be a threat. Every stranger could trigger a command. Every moment Leena spends beside him deepens the fated connection neither of them can safely trust.

Kaelreth believes distance from Leena will put her in danger.

Leena knows surrendering every choice will only strengthen the cage his captors built inside him.

To survive, they must create something his conditioning never allowed.

Consent. Trust. Choice.

As Leena helps Kaelreth distinguish implanted fear from genuine instinct, the forsaken warrior begins recovering pieces of the man he was before the experiments. The journey may also reunite him with the brother who believed him lost forever.

But freedom is not simply escaping the people who imprisoned him.

It is choosing what kind of protector, brother, and mate he wants to become.

Bride of the Forsaken Alien is a steamy captive alien warrior romance featuring an experimentally conditioned Zmaj hero and a courageous human heroine, with a forced-proximity escape and a guaranteed happily ever after.