Caution: this book is about a particular kink and contains intense scenes of surrender, including forced seduction, which may offend some readers.
Two warring nations.
One enslaves its men, the other its women.
Two royal scions linked by forbidden passion.
On the backwater planet of Argelia, Galactic technology is forbidden. Wars are fought with swords and cannon fire, and the only contact with the outside world is through trade of Argelia's fine handicrafts.
Prince Dario of Saturnios is everything Tariza of Concordia despises about Saturnian men--arrogant, domineering and, worst of all, unchained. Her body's yearning for his touch betrays everything in which she believes. Luckily, their brief encounter at a diplomatic negotiation is the only time she'll ever have to see him.
Dario's sadistic uncle, King Grasos of Saturnios, plans to capture, rape and torture Crown Princess Tariza, using her degradation as a weapon in the war between their nations. But Dario, unable to forget the spirited and beautiful woman he once kissed, thwarts his plans by claiming and marking Tariza as his own. Now Dario must train her to submit, though his success will destroy the very qualities that drew him to her.
Their struggle to love freely sweeps them from luxurious royal bedchambers, across icy winter wastes, to the cruelest of prison cells. Hunted by Saturnios and Concordia alike, their only ally is Shadow, a visiting prince of the alien Demon Kin. But how will they reach the safety of Shadow's planet without a spaceship or any other Galactic technology?