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

As Diogo steps to the side I take his spot, feeling the heat of the fire sweep over me. I fling the names of my loved ones into the fire; my parents, grandparents, brother and Emery. We lost her almost two months after she'd been bitten. She didn't turn, but she was never able to recover from the injuries she'd sustained. In the end, her death had been almost a relief. Every passing day was agony for her as she continued to grow weaker and weaker until she could no longer eat or drink by herself. Then she stopped being able to speak until finally her organs shut down.


I've had many people in my life die, some violently, some from illness, and some, like my grandparents, simply disappeared from my life so I never found out what happened. None were quite like Emery. Every day I sat with her. I sang and I talked to her, I looked after her. She tried to fight, but after a long battle with little improvement she had finally passed away in her sleep when I wasn't there to comfort her.


Chapter 152: Taran