Gaian Consortium, Boxed Set 1

Description

Three novels. Three worlds. Three couples who should never have found each other.

In a galaxy where humanity’s Gaian Consortium spans a hundred worlds — and where the aliens it calls neighbors have secrets of their own — the line between enemy and lover has never been thinner. Start the Gaian Consortium series from USA Today bestselling author Christine Pope with these first three books: a desert outlaw and the killer she should have left to die, a colonist’s daughter and the hooded alien who bought her, and two sworn enemies whose scandalous wager brings an empire to its knees.

Each book is a complete standalone romance with its own happily ever after.

BLOOD WILL TELL
On the sun-scorched frontier world of Iradia, Miala Fels wants only one thing: to bleed the Mast crime syndicate dry. But when a rival’s ambush leaves her target’s caravan a graveyard of burning chrome, she finds a single survivor — Eryk Thorn, the syndicate’s deadliest enforcer, and the man who embodies everything she hates. She should leave him to die. Instead, she strikes a bargain: his protection for a share of her dead master’s fortune. But desert nights run hot, the line between enemy and lover blurs — and the secret Miala carries away will bind them long after the bargain ends.

BREATH OF LIFE
On the half-terraformed colony of Lathvin IV, Anika Jespers expected a life of mud and toil. Then a storm drives her father to steal the life-giving moonflowers of their nearest neighbor — one of the Zhore, the black-robed aliens no human has ever seen unmasked — and the price he names is Anika herself. Now she lives in the great stone house on the hill, where her hooded captor asks only that she become his wife. But how can she love a face she’s never seen — and what will she do when he finally lowers his hood?

THE GAIA GAMBIT
Gaian captain Lira Jannholm and Stacian commander Rast sen Drenthan are sworn enemies — until Rast makes an outrageous wager: his fleet will withdraw from the resource-rich world they’re both fighting over if Lira will spend one night with him. She agrees, to protect her people. It costs her everything. Stripped of her rank and cast out in disgrace, Lira slowly uncovers the truth: she and Rast were both pawns in a conspiracy reaching the highest levels of both their governments. Now the disgraced captain and the enemy who ruined her must trust each other to survive.