Claire Kent

Find the strongest man there. Give yourself to him in return for protection. It’s the only way you’ll ever survive.

For almost a year, Talia has lived as a sex worker for the High Director of the Coalition Council, providing recreational sex and sensual pleasure for some of the most important and influential people in the explored universe.

Kyla was born the younger daughter of the royal family of a planet known throughout Coalition space for its indulgence and debauchery.

It only took four years for the world to fall apart. Now the last member of my family has died, and I'm forced to travel across what's left of three states to find the only people I know left alive.

She hired him to take her virginity…but now she wants even more.

As a pilot and a smuggler, Lenna has spent her life flying under the radar in Coalition space—taking care of herself, not relying on anyone. She's always liked it that way. But now she's stranded without any resources on a stone-age planet.

Now my family's gone, and the only person who can keep me safe in a violent, chaotic world is my dead boyfriend's rough, uncivilized father. I don't like him. At all. Cal's the last person I want to rely on, but for now, he's all I've got.

When the asteroid hits and the world falls apart, I'm seventeen, and my dad buys us a place in an underground bunker. We're supposed to be safe down there, but we're not. Gradually, I lose everything until all I have left is a bewildering relationship with a stoic, unknowable man.

Maybe Jackson would be different if he were in love. If he were in a relationship. Or, if the world outside this room hadn't fallen into violent chaos, hadn't become a constant war we have no choice but to fight. Maybe he would take his time. Be softer. Gentler. Maybe he would smile or even laugh.