Beneath the Ruined Sky: A Post-Apocalyptic Alien Romance of Life-Bond Evolution, Forced Proximity, and Healer-Warrior Destiny

He was dying when she found him.

Enemy uniform. Command insignia. Blood loss past recovery.

Mara Kessler knows exactly what that means.

She saves him anyway.

Commander Caelis Vaelor is Crown Prince of the empire that destroyed her city. That killed thirty thousand people on the South Side. That took her sister on a Tuesday morning two years ago.

The bond forms the moment his blood touches her skin.

If he dies, she dies.

She understands that immediately.

What takes longer is the rest. When his second heart stutters, she feels it fail. When her hands shake, he knows why.

There is no distance. No silence. No way to shut the other out.

The Cleaners don't take prisoners. Mara has seen what they leave behind.

His hand in her hair doesn't feel like control. It feels like something she's letting happen.

She should be pulling away.

She knows that.

She doesn't.

She saved him knowing exactly what he was.

She doesn't know why she would do it again.

Beneath the Ruined Sky is a slow-burn sci-fi romance featuring enemies-to-lovers tension, a forced life-bond, and a love story that was never supposed to feel like choice.