Brides of the Stone Sky Gods

"My human prisoner wants freedom. There's only one way she'll get it: marry me." The alien lord holding me prisoner is the most powerful being I've ever encountered. A winged immortal who can kill with a mere wave of his hand. He's arrogant and alien. Demanding and dangerous. Brutal, even beautiful, though I hate him too much to admit it. He hates me, too. But even though my captor despises me, he needs me. He requires a bride for political reasons, and he makes me an offer I have no choice but to accept. Marry him, play the part of his happy wife, and he'll give me the one thing I want most-my freedom. Inside our fake marriage, hate turns into something else. Something dark and strange and needy. I don't recognize my treacherous body, and as I slide further into my husband's deadly grasp, I fight him with everything I have. He can have my vow. He can even have my desire. But if I let him get his claws into my heart… He will never let me go.

I've been trapped in the darkness of berserker rage for eons, with nothing and no one strong enough to drag me back into the light-until her. When a monstrous alien smashes into the deserted planet we're studying, it's with the raging force of a natural disaster. I'm not sure if he's a dragon, a god, or a man. He's massive and terrible, with scales like emeralds, glowing wings, and only one maddened eye left. In the rush to retreat from this berserk behemoth, my fellow humans leave me behind. But he doesn't. His burning eye lands on me, and it's like I'm the only thing left in the universe. When he comes for me, his body heaving with violence, I know that he will kill me. Except... Except when his scales touch my skin, something happens to him. Maybe happens to both of us. He calms, and through the fading fury of his gaze, I see someone who isn't quite as monstrous as I thought. Then he brings me to another planet entirely. Abducting me and forever separating me from the only human friends I have left. He takes me like I'm something that belongs to him. It doesn't matter that his touch grows softer every passing day, or that he's as focused on protecting me as he is possessing me. It doesn't matter that he sometimes looks as lost in this new world as I feel, like he's trying to remember who he used to be. Or who he's supposed to become. It doesn't matter that sometimes I want to reach for him as much as I want to run. Skallagrim has made it clear that he will never grant me freedom. In return, I will never grant forgiveness. Even if it hurts... And hurts us both. Berserker God is an epic sci-fi romantasy with fated mates, feisty human heroines, and immortal alien gods who will stop at nothing to possess them. It is the second book in the Brides of the Stone Sky Gods series but can be enjoyed as a standalone.