I get that the story needed that conflict in order for the reader to feel satisfied with the payoff at the end. I get why Olivia needed to refuse the bonding. I know I may have gone a bit overboard with the rant updates with this book, but boy did this just rub me the wrong way. And just as she thinks she knows what she wants, a twist of fate and an attack by the faceless Scourge AllFather changes everything… She’s determined to resist him but his touch sets her on fire. Every week he is allowed to touch Liv more and more intimately and according to the contract she signed, she has to let him. If she can keep from having bonding sex with him during that time, she can go home and get on with her life on Earth.īut Baird isn’t going to make it easy for her. She has one month on the Kindred Mothership with Baird-their claiming period. His need to possess her is a burning intensity that threatens to consume them both.Īngry at having her future and her family taken away from her, Liv vows to fight back the only way she can-by resisting. Through the torment and pain only one thing kept him sane-the thought of finding and claiming his bride-Olivia. The chances of being chosen are about the same as those of winning the lottery-guess it’s just Liv’s lucky day.īaird is a Beast Kindred who recently escaped imprisonment and torture at the hands of the malevolent Scourge. After saving Earth from the threat of invasion they demand a reward-the right to find brides among the population. The Kindred are huge alien warriors-a race of genetic traders whose population is ninety-five percent male. Problem is, she isn’t being forced into the Army, she’s been chosen as a Kindred bride. Olivia Waterhouse has just graduated from nursing school and has her whole life ahead of her-until she gets drafted.

Claimed by evangeline anderson