Can a woman who was sold as "useless" property convince three guilt-ridden machines that they are worthy of becoming a family?

Colynn knows what she's worth. Five years as a Kriuuk slave taught her — she's labour, she's livestock, she's the thing that gets sold at market between creatures meant for eating. Barren, plain-faced, and disposable. When she's handed over as the "Prize" in a Bruuixan death contest, it barely registers as a demotion.

Then she kills something impossible to save a man who isn't technically a man — and everything changes.

Orpheus has survived a hundred years by being wise, Idas by hating himself, and Echion by being underestimated. Three Galaxeans — three stolen boys sealed in synthetic shells — who've never had a reason to believe they deserve more than function. Until they met her.

Now an alien emperor is using Colynn as bait to test the capacity of these "machines". How far will they go for someone who matters? And can they prove to themselves they deserve the love of this one extraordinary ordinary woman.

A slave who was told she was nothing. Three machines who were told they weren't human. And a union that rewrites the future of a species.

Note: Contains mature, potentially triggering content set within a dystopian regime.

Romance where love is the hardest choice — and the most necessary one.

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