

"""After I lost the baby, I gave up everything my mate, Alpha Rhydian, hated. I stopped using our bond to sense where he was. I could sleep soundly even when he didn't come back to our bedroom all night. I didn't even tell him when a rogue's silver blade sliced my arm during a border skirmish. The pack doctor told me to notify my family. I just answered calmly, """"I don't have a family."""" The doctor recognized me. """"You're the Luna. Alpha Rhydian is at headquarters. Should I inform him?"""" I shook my head gently. """"No, don't."""" But half an hour later, Rhydian came anyway. His tall frame cast a shadow over me, his voice ice-cold. """"You're hurt. Why didn't you call me through the mind link?"""" I lowered my eyes. """"It's just a scratch. No need to bother the Alpha."""" A low growl rumbled in his chest. The air crackled with his fury. He was about to speak when a guard whispered outside the door, """"The Alpha cares so much for Isla. She just pricked her finger on a rose thorn, and he gave her the pack's most precious moonlight herb."""" I saw his jaw clench. His gray-blue eyes shot to me, searching for the jealous rage I always used to show. I gave him nothing. Not even a blink. I just leaned back against the cheap hospital pillows and closed my eyes. But Rhydian's composure finally shattered. """

Year 3610, ten years after the great interstellar war. Space pirates and Void forces plague the galaxy. Thorne, former Star Marshal and weary of war, lives incognito on Neon Star, running a quiet bar with Ileah, heir of the Mogul clan. But Ileah’s broken engagement offends the Abyss family, and the Shadow of the Void covets her rare healing ability. Enemies close in. Thorne sheds his disguise, defeats the Abyss heir and a Void squad leader, and returns with Ileah to the Eight Great Clans. Lord Regan of Abyss and Void Commander Dexter strike back. Thorne wields lightning, spatial arts, and nanotech armor to crush them, uniting the Eight Clans to destroy the Shadow of the Void. Yet when the battle ends, an alien claw emerges from a deep-space rift — a new cosmic crisis begins.