KINDLED
A Novel of the Threnody Expanse
By Lisa Herd
When an enemy's touch becomes a bond neither of them can break.
Captain Ashira Voss has spent nine years running blockades and smuggling refugees out from under the Solari Imperium's boot — ever since the war took her sister and left her with nothing to trust but a fast ship and a crew she'd die for. Voidlord Kael Vantar is the Imperium's most feared fleet commander, heir to a throne built on six centuries of careful bloodline politics. They should never have touched.
But when Kael's dreadnought boards Ashira's ship above a debris field, their hands meet across a blade — and the Kindling ignites: a rare, involuntary bond that marks two people as fated to each other, body and mind, whether they want it or not.
Neither of them wanted it. Neither can undo it.
Now a smuggler and a warlord are bound by something older than the war trying to kill them both — while a ruthless regent, a suspicious Coalition, and a court that will never accept her all move to turn their bond into a weapon. Ashira and Kael have to decide fast: run from what the universe handed them, or fight for it — through forged evidence, a coup, a jailbreak, and a battle that could end nine years of war or finish what it started.
Kindled is a full-length space opera romance about choosing someone the world tells you is the enemy — and choosing them again, every day, until that stops being complicated.
241 pages | Space Opera Romance | Fated Mates