Thorne Hearts and Steel Blossoms

Kira Santos has one rule: never sleep with a Dominion operative. As the most successful smuggler in the Outer Rings, she's stayed alive by keeping Dominion forces—and their arrogant officers—far from her cargo hold and even further from her bed. Until Commander Julian Blake storms her ship during a routine "inspection," and her well-honed instincts scream that he's the most delicious danger she's ever encountered.



Blake has spent three years hunting the infamous Santos across star systems, telling himself it's about justice and not his obsession with those defiant amber eyes and curves that haunt his dreams. Now, with her finally in his custody, he's shocked to discover the notorious criminal is even more intoxicating up close. The raw electricity between them threatens to short-circuit his sense of duty.



When a rival syndicate targets them both, Kira and Blake are forced to forge an uneasy alliance. By day, they dodge assassins and navigate treacherous space lanes. By night, their verbal sparring explodes into a passion that leaves them both scorched. As the heat between them reaches unbearable levels, they'll have to decide what burns hotter—their need to maintain control, or their desperate hunger for each other.



Sometimes the finest line in the galaxy is the one between surrendering to your enemy... and surrendering to desire.