Tamera always trusted math. 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, out-think an interstellar council, and bargain with a man whose power was built on lies.

If she fails, two species lose their future.

Tropes:

• Enemies to Lovers
• Fated Mates
• Cheating
• Second-Chance
• Political Intrigue
• Alien-Human relationship

Spice Level: 2/5; open door and explicit