Hi, my name is Nikita Slater and I'm the International Bestselling author of The Queens series, Fire & Vice series, The Sanctuary series, Driven Hearts series and several standalone novels. I've loved the written word my entire life and am an avid reader, as well as a writer. I live, eat and breathe books and I'm always working on something new!
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I live on the beautiful Canadian prairies with my son and crazy awesome dog. I have an unholy affinity for books (especially dark romance), wine, pets and anything chocolate. Despite some of the darker themes in my books (which are pure fun and fantasy), I am a staunch feminist and advocate of equal rights for all races, genders and non-gender specific persons. When I'm not writing, dreaming about writing or talking about writing, I love to help others discover a love of reading and writing through literacy and social work.

Only the strongest can survive in a hostile world ravaged by a disease that turns humans into primitives.

She is the Desert Wren, a rebel bent on providing safe passage to illegal refugees entering into her Sanctuary city. If she’s caught she’ll be executed, but the price is worth the privilege of doing what she knows is right. Except when she’s finally caught, the sentence isn’t death, it’s her freedom.

It’s the Warlord’s job to weed out the weak and sacrifice them for the good of the Sanctuary. Brutal and autocratic, he is the highest authority. The only threat to his dictatorship is a rebel faction rising up from the slums of his city. When he arrests a rebel leader, the Desert Wren, he sees his redemption. She will help him guide Sanctuary into the future. He just needs to convince his little captive that she’s better off with him than flying free.

What is the price of Sanctuary in a dying world and is it worth the sacrifice?


The Sanctuary Series

I wake abruptly from a deep sleep with the certain feeling that something is missing. 


I'm on my feet and throwing on my jeans within seconds. I was a fool to think that I would wake when she did, that she wouldn't take the opportunity to run. My gut twists as I realize that the only place she could've gone is the roof. There's a man outside my apartment who would've detained her and sent her back to me if she wandered out there. And she's smart enough to know that. I swear viciously as I imagine her scaling down the building again, slipping and falling. My gut burns with the thought of her twisted dead body laying on the ground far below. 


I fly through the door, throwing it open so hard it hits the wall. I take the stairs three at a time and burst through second door onto the rooftop. I don't pause, I hurl myself at the ledge, clutching it hard, my throat closing as I look down the side of the building to the ground. 


"Diogo." Her soft voice comes from behind me. 


Chapter 27: Diogo