Instinct of Devotion: Alpha Protector Captive Romance

Lin Vale studies monsters for a living. She's good at it — clinical, careful, untouched by what she sees under the fluorescent hum of the facility's lower levels. Then she's assigned to Keira.

Keira is an alpha wolf shifter, the most dangerous captive the Aegis Accord has ever held. Every handler before Lin ended up broken or dead. Her golden eyes don't plead. They assess, track, claim.

Lin expects hostility. She doesn't expect Keira's gaze to follow her like a hand pressed to the small of her back. She definitely doesn't expect the low, rough words through cold steel bars: "You smell like mine."

Deep in an underground facility built for containment and nothing else, Lin is supposed to be the one running the evaluation. But something shifts. Keira's protectiveness turns toward her - deliberate, fierce, impossible to ignore - and Lin starts asking questions she was never meant to ask.

The Accord has plans for Keira. Wipe her mind. Strip what's left of who she is and turn her into a weapon. Lin is running out of time to decide where her loyalty actually lives.

Every touch that shouldn't happen. Every quiet word exchanged in the dark. Each one pulls them deeper into something neither of them can name or afford.

One woman raised to believe in the mission. One alpha who never trusted anyone - until now. The walls around them are thick, the surveillance never blinks, and the cost of wanting each other is climbing by the day.

What do you hold onto when the thing you were trained to fear is the only one keeping you whole?

A slow-burn sapphic shifter romance with a fierce protective alpha, forbidden desire, and a love built in the most dangerous place imaginable.

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In a world of monsters bound by Aegis, hers is only one of many forbidden bonds… and far from the last.

The hum of high-voltage fences echoes through the labs of Aegis. This is where monsters are made into weapons. Wolves and dragons live in cages here. Creatures of shadow and sea wait for their next command. They are built for power and hunger. These women aren't supposed to feel anything but the need to obey. They are bred to destroy.

Everything changes when human women enter the facility. The old rules start to fracture. Control is a lie. Instinct takes over as loyalties shift toward a new target. One specific woman becomes the center of a beast's world. It's a dangerous obsession. A monster will tear down the walls to keep her close.

She won't let anyone else touch what belongs to her. The mission no longer matters. Only the woman does. There is nowhere to run once she claims you. Her devotion is a beautiful, terrifying trap.

Will you survive the hunger of a beast who refuses to let go?

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Libro electrónico: 1 de abril de 2026