Tamera always trusted math and science. People were never part of the equation.
When an alien princess demands her life as a public act of diplomacy, Tamera’s family becomes leverage and her future a negotiation she cannot refuse. Torn from Earth and dragged into a hostile alien court, she is forced into the Unity Trials, a brutal gauntlet designed to test strength, intelligence, and loyalty.
Every alliance carries a cost. Every promise smells like betrayal. And the one variable she never planned for, love, threatens to shatter the control that once kept her children safe.
Locland is a clan chief who believes blood can be bound into peace. He rules through secrets and sacrifice, but Tamera refuses to be a pawn. To survive, she must outfight a gladiator arena, outthink an interstellar council, and bargain with a man whose power was built on lies.
If she fails, two species lose their future.
More than just a mere heroine, Tamera's a mother, scorned wife, and a neurodivergent genius. And nothing will stop her from saving her children. Even if it's a handsome alien clan chief.
I would never write a book where my FMC isn't badass. Tamera is hit with obstacle after obstacle and she still overcomes. Still she rise.
He agreed to her offer to extend his lineage. He sees her as weak and not worthy. But proximity is a cruel teacher. Hatred turns into strategy. Strategy turns into understanding and and then understanding turns into something neither of them can afford.
She is human. He is not. But that doesn't matter. Because Fate doesn't ask. It marks.

Wife, mother, and tech enthusiast, Marla writes books in Sci-Fi and Fantasy spaces where there is a lack of representation and diversity. She's doing it for the culture.
This story of fantastical worlds, warring clans with legacies of patriarchy against a heroine destined to upend it all, is an amazing read, full of twists and turns right when you think you've figured out the plot. Definitely will be re-reading and kudos to the author 👏🏾 I can't wait to read more from her pen!