Knotted by the Dark Alien: A Sci-Fi Fantasy Erotic Romance Featuring Primal Knotting

She came for the ruins. She stayed for the knot.

Dr. Kira Vasquez is having the worst year of her life. Fired from her dream job, blacklisted from every dig site in the galaxy, and one bad drink away from rock bottom, she's not exactly in a position to say no when a mysterious contact offers her a fortune to translate ancient alien texts.

She should have asked more questions.

Her new employer is Vyrath Sorin — exiled Dra'khari commander, seven feet of dark obsidian muscle, bioluminescent lines tracing his skin, and a stare that makes her brain short-circuit. He needs her expertise to find the Convergence Key, a mythical artifact that could save his scattered people. For Kira, it's the discovery of a lifetime. For both of them, it's about to get very, very complicated.

Because the artifact isn't just a relic — it's a test. And the ancient riddle at its heart can only be solved by two beings from different worlds, bound together in ways neither of them expected.

What follows is a white-knuckle adventure across jungle planets, underground cities, and a temple that exists between dimensions — with a snarky heroine who argues with her prosthetic hand, a brooding alien warrior hiding a poet's heart, and enough scorching alien heat to melt starship hull plating.

When Kira's obsessed former mentor races them to the prize, she'll have to choose between the world she came from and the bond she never saw coming. But the Architects who built the Key twelve thousand years ago knew something about connection that the rest of the galaxy forgot — and Kira and Vyrath are about to prove them right.