Triad Trilogy Books in Order

She was bred to be perfect. They were bred to be disposable. The mutation that binds them is the one thing the Citadel can't engineer away.

A-Lin is a flawless product of the Citadel — genetically polished, socially compliant, and one secret away from Disposal. Because behind the perfect face is an irrational mind that reads emotions like text, and in a society where imperfection is a death sentence, empathy is the most dangerous defect of all.

Her purpose is simple. She is livestock — an A-grade woman packaged and priced for sale to the last survivor of a genocidal alien Horde. Her Guardians are supposed to deliver her, collect their retirement, and forget she existed.

Her Guardians are not cooperating.

D-Lon is intense, rigid, and furious at a system he's only now realising was designed to kill him. D-Kah is streetwise enough to know a con when he's inside one. D-Gan is the brilliant one — and brilliant enough to understand that the empathic mutation binding all four of them together isn't a glitch. It's a death sentence. If they deliver A-Lin, the Citadel will destroy them to bury what they've become.

Every emotion she feels, they feel. Every wound, every want, every flicker of trust she's never been allowed to give — it hits all three of them like a shockwave. The bond wasn't supposed to happen. The Citadel's genetics were supposed to prevent exactly this. And now the only choices left are ugly ones.

A-Lin can walk into the arms of a monster and save the system that made her. Or she can run — through inter-dimensional portals and into uncharted space — with three men her world calls inferior and her biology calls home.

A perfect woman. Three disposable soldiers. And a mutation that says the Citadel's hierarchy was always a lie.

Romance where love is the hardest choice — and the most necessary one.
alpha males: damsel in distress; star crossed lovers