Hearts of Obsidian RESONANCE

She survived the crash. Surviving the alien who calls her his will be harder.Dr. Ava Chen has triaged disasters before. She’s never woken on a frozen world she can’t name, the only doctor among a handful of human survivors, with seven feet of obsidian-skinned warrior standing between her people and the dark.The Vothren have been dying for a hundred and fifty years. No females. No future. Just males who burn with an inner fire and the fading hope of the fated bond their kind calls resonance. Their chieftain, Raeth, stopped believing in it long ago.Then Ava touches him and his glow answers.He says she’s his khi’ra, his destined mate, that the light beneath his skin chose her the moment she opened her eyes. Ava doesn’t believe in destiny. She believes in keeping people alive. But the longer she stays in his settlement of ice and steam, the harder it gets to ignore the way her body lights up when he’s near or the way the most dangerous male on the planet turns gentle only for her.And the cold isn’t the only thing hunting them. Something old sleeps beneath the ice, and it’s beginning to wake.A fated-mate alien romance with a touch-starved alpha who’d burn down the world for one woman, a heroine who refuses to be saved, found family on a frozen frontier, and a slow burn that detonates.18+ for explicit content. Guaranteed happily-ever-after for Ava and Raeth, no cheating, no cliffhanger. The wider story of Keth’vora continues in Book Two.