Astrid’s Abrauxian King: Book One of the Abrauxian Brides Series

One minute, I’m lounging on a yacht with my best friends off the coast of Grand Cayman. Sun, salt air, laughter. The next, we’re ripped from the deck and hurled across the stars. Thirteen Earth women, stolen in the night by an alien race teetering on the edge of extinction.

I’m Astrid Akselsen. Miami child psychologist. Calm under pressure. Good in a crisis. Tragically single. But nothing prepared me for waking up on a distant planet, claimed as queen by Jakvar, a seven-foot-tall, horned alien king with a voice like thunder and eyes full of ghosts.

Their women are gone. Their future is unraveling. And someone decided we’re their only hope.

The palace is a maze of secrets. The court is fracturing. And danger stalks the oceans and the shadows alike. I don’t care how noble his intentions or how gentle his hands. No one takes me without a fight. If I want to protect my friends, and myself, I’ll have to confront what’s waking inside me, face who I really am, and choose what I’m willing to become.

This is not the tropical getaway I signed up for. But if I want to survive, I’ll have to embrace the storm, the crown… and maybe even the king.