He claims her before he even knows how to ask.

Mick has survived the crash, the jungle, and the terrifying truth that the Order destroyed her world to turn human women into breeding stock. She is tired, filthy, scared, and not in the mood to be told she belongs to anyone.

Then Thargar looks at her and says the one thing guaranteed to make her dig in her heels.

I claim you.

Thargar is a Zmaj warrior, and his dragon knows what his mind is still trying to explain: Mick is his mate. His treasure. The other half of his soul. To him, there is no uncertainty. No courtship. No maybe. A Zmaj claims once, loves once, and protects forever.

Mick is not so easily convinced.

She is attracted to him. Too attracted. Thargar is huge, gorgeous, protective, and so brutally sincere that resisting him should be impossible. But Mick refuses to become anyone's possession, especially on a planet where the Order sees human women as nothing but wombs for a dying race. If Thargar wants her, he will have to do more than claim her.

He will have to prove he sees her as a woman, not a prize.

When the survivors need a false trail to lead the Order away from their new refuge, Mick and Thargar take the most dangerous part of the plan. Alone in the jungle, hunted by the warriors who want her captured, they follow the crimson river toward the ancient Red Falls and a trap meant to buy their people time.

But Tajss does not make anything easy.

The current turns deadly. The Order closes in. Three of Mick's friends are taken. And the warrior who already calls her his must show her the truth beneath every possessive word: he will protect her, pleasure her, fight for her, and stand beside her, but he will not cage her.

Mick wanted proof before she risked her heart.

Thargar is about to give her everything.

Mick's Claiming is a steamy alien dragon romance featuring a reluctant virgin heroine and a possessive but devoted Zmaj alien warrior.