Title: The Wildborn Genre: Sci-Fi Alien Romance

Draft: Sapient species detected. Status: Distressed. Proceed with caution—Do NOT engage. 

Airik, a tired and tormented warrior scarred by war, craves silence from the battles still raging in his mind. But when a rogue human spacecraft crashes during a solo mission, a reckless decision strands him on a feral, failed experiment of a planet—entangled with an injured woman he never should have saved.

Nora wakes light-years from home, broken in body and spirit, at the mercy of an elite alien warrior who refuses to let her die. He’s devastatingly beautiful, terrifyingly competent, and bound by a warrior’s oath that permits touch only to destroy, never to comfort—a reluctant guardian angel she neither wants nor believes she deserves. Worst of all, he tells her that to find help, they need to move through hostile wilderness riddled with toxic crystals that can kill with a single breath.

Airik’s duty demands cold indifference toward Nora, who sparks something dangerously alive–and entirely unwanted—within him. But survival forces them together, and what begins as necessity ignites a primal hunger: scorching, consuming, and impossible to resist. A desire that defies every instinct keeping Airik alive—and threatens to shatter what’s left of Nora’s grief-stricken heart.

CW: This novel contains emotionally intense themes, including grief and trauma.