He thinks he's the apex predator. Adorable. BRONWEN Five years stuck on this prison planet taught me one thing—everything here wants to kill you, so you'd better be the thing they fear most. Now a hulking Vinduthi warrior has crashed into my kingdom, all horns and fangs and delicious violence. He thinks he's rescuing me. Poor beast has no idea I'm the monster in this fairy tale. ZAREK I came to this hellscape for revenge. Instead, I found her. Bronwen—soft where I'm scarred, smiling where I snarl. She walked into a death trap, whistled once, and sent the beasts that were tearing me apart slinking back into the dark. Then she offered me a her secrets for passage off-world. Because when a scarred alien beast meets a sunshine psycho with murder on her mind, the only question is who claims who first.