CAUGHT: A Dark Monster Romance Novella (Legacy of the Colossus #3)
Vexi Thorne
"The water isn't sick. It's hungry."
I am a woman of science. I believe in cause and effect, in pathology, in things I can measure. I went to the river to find the poison killing my village.
I didn't expect the river to grab me back.
I fell into the Blackwater and was dragged into the dark—down to the deep aquifer where the sun never reaches. I should have drowned. instead, I was caught.
He is the River King. A creature of bioluminescence and slick, gray muscle. He didn't just save me; he claimed me. He says I am leaking heat. He says I am fragile. He wraps his cold, coiled body around mine to keep me warm, feeding me silver roe that changes my biology and binds me to the deep.
Now, my belly is swelling with a translucent, glowing pearl. The village is poisoning the water above, but down here, I am not a victim. I am the filter.
And I am never surfacing again. I am Caught.
CAUGHT is a dark, high-heat monster romance novella featuring aquatic themes, size difference, forced proximity/body heat sharing, and a unique "egg/pearl" pregnancy. It is the third book in the Legacy of the Colossus series.
