title: The Bonding
author: Keeper, Imogen
description: Queen-designate of Triannon, Nissa is both pampered princess and public servant with a future not her own. When her planet is invaded by alien slavers, she launches into space in a cryo-pod in a desperate search for help.
  Tam, a warrior of Tribe Argentus, is brutal, hard and uncompromising and never expected to take a mate of his own. Yet when he finds Nissa frozen in space, suffering from a deadly disease, he knows he will do anything to save her.
  Struggling for peace in a hostile universe, Nissa and Tam battle a dangerous addiction, warring factions and their own stubborn hearts. Their strange part-chemical, part-mystical Bonding brought them together—and just might be what tears them apart.
  Reader Advisory: This story has graphic sexual language and scenes, including an attempted sexual attack on the heroine—no closed bedroom doors (or other rooms) here!
  An
  adult science fiction romance
  from Ellora’s Cave,