Time is running out for astrobiologist Harper Blackwell. Nothing on earth has been able to cure her rare brain disorder, and a top-secret project offers the chance of a lifetime: studying an alien life form, and potentially finding a cure for her disease. Only the body on the sterile slab isn’t an amoeba or oversized tardigrade—it’s a massive, muscle-bound alien.
It runs against everything she believes in to experiment on a sentient being, especially one that sparks an impossible yearning within her. But if she leaves, she can't help him or anyone else—including herself.
D’tan of the Apex’ir has longed for a mate ever since discovering his kind were compatible with humans. Then he awakens strapped to a table in a human lab. His helm—the one thing that can identify his true mate—is cut from his head. Through the pain, his gaze latches onto one of the figures looming over him, and both his hearts stutter. No! He will not long for his captor. It’s a cruel trap set by his enemies—the insidious Fever, who have infiltrated the secret facility. Except when the testing becomes torture, she does the unthinkable and frees him.
Now two enemies—doctor and specimen—must uncover the deadly research brewing inside the lab. D’tan cannot trust the attraction burning between them, but accepting their bond might be the only way to stop the lab’s sickness from swallowing the world.
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