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

The days following my conversation with Diogo are agony. He wants to talk about everything, discover every facet of my life. With each discussion, I can see his brain turning over and over, thinking about my upbringing and my time within his city walls. I feel that I'm on the verge of bringing our Warlord around to a new way of thinking. Knowing that I must betray him burns a hole right through me, eats me alive with every conversation. With every kiss and every touch. 


I'm as in love with my husband as he is with me. But I'm going to leave him. If there's even the glimmer of a chance that one or both of my grandparents are alive and living in the mountains then I have to go. See for myself if the rumours are true, and if they are, I need to search the face of every person in the mountain settlement until I either find the ones I'm looking for or finally bury them in my heart. 


Chapter 43: Taran