My Enemy Across the Stars

"He was bred to be an empire’s deadliest weapon. She swore on the ashes of her burned world to see his family bleed."

Captain Seraphine Cross has spent six years chasing ghosts across the black. When a desperate raid yields encrypted files linking the total annihilation of her home colony to the Veyran High Command, she finally has a lead, until her crippled scout ship is cornered by the most lethal dreadnought in the galaxy. Enter Crown Prince Kael Draven: cold, calculating, and accustomed to an empire that cowers before his boots. But when the battered human captain looks him dead in the eye and calls him an overdecorated tyrant, he doesn't execute her. Instead, a single classified operation code in her stolen data shatters everything he knows: the strike that turned her world to burning glass was authorized under the command cipher of his dead brother. With traitors lurking in both governments, an impossible bargain is struck. Seraphine agrees to navigate the glittering, venomous imperial palace as Kael's personal investigator to drag the truth into the light. Surviving a court of smiling vipers and poisoned wine is dangerous enough. Surviving the suffocating pull between them is impossible. From crashing onto frozen moons to dancing on the razor's edge of high treason, every shared breath tests the boundaries of their hatred. Because behind Kael's icy arrogance lies a lethal devotion that threatens to dismantle her armor. In a galaxy rigged for war, trusting your enemy will get you killed. Falling for him might destroy the universe.