In the brutal future frozen Earth, humans are no longer dominant, but merely tolerated. One of them has caught the attention of a Lionsblood and he will stop at nothing to claim her as his own. Dykstra can’t move past the feisty little human. She’s fragile, yet stronger than anyone he’s ever known. When he sees the scar that marks her a Lionsmate, he knows the fates have brought him to her. Driven by an attraction bordering on insanity, he takes her from a human slave farm to his own colony deep beneath the Earth’s surface. Talia is fascinated with Dykstra, but even the mighty Lionsblood can’t quell her spirit. He tantalizes her senses and gives her a taste of the most carnal of pleasures, but never more than a taste. Unable to understand why Dykstra won’t claim her, though she wants nothing more than to be claimed, Talia does her best to make a new home for herself in the Lionsmate’s domain. But Dykstra might have waited too long, when the attentions of another man and the deadly demands of Dykstra’s duties to his colony threaten to separate him from Talia forever.