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 lean back in my chair, tossing the file folder on the table in front of me. Nestled inside is the brief history of a woman who was once faceless to me but will now haunt my memory. And deservedly so. I am the last person she saw before she closed her eyes forever. I will honour her with remembrance. For Taran. And maybe for myself.


Victoria Greystone. Blond hair, blue eyes. 


Twenty-seven years old. Married to Alphonse Rodriguez. Two children registered to the couple. Mary Rodriguez, 5, and Sebastian Rodriguez, 7. 


She lived in sector six near the West wall. I found out from her grieving husband that, on the day of her death, she was gathering herbs along the wall. Plant-life tend to grow rampant up the wall and in abandoned buildings and, despite the danger of crumbling structures, people will enter the buildings or climb sections of the wall in search of their next meal.


Chapter 31: Diogo