He was built to guard a hungry god; she was the only sacrifice that would satisfy them both.
Dr. Alaina Vyn, a disgraced geneticist, is exiled to Eryndor, a decaying orbital station haunted by past failures. Drawn to the station’s humming core, she discovers its Varkis, a monstrous fusion of flesh and machine whose terrifying presence is as magnetic as it is lethal. He is her captor, a creature of absolute power who sees her not as a woman, but as a possession to be claimed. He promises to teach her the meaning of submission, one hole at a time, his whispers of filth a testament to the dark desires she awakens in him. But their forbidden, violent passion stirs the ravenous entity Varkis was designed to contain. The very walls of the station hum with a cosmic hunger that mirrors their own. To save Eryndor, Alaina must break their bond and sever their psychic connection. Yet surrendering to her monstrous captor might be the only way to save them all, even if it means sacrificing her humanity forever.
This standalone book has themes of monster romance, human/monster interspecies relationship, forced proximity, possessive anti-hero, non-human anatomy, abduction fantasy, complex consent dynamics, power imbalance, dubious consent, happily ever after.