Captured and delivered to the slave markets, Decius, a savage from another land, is a rare commodity to the Taun of Galendar. His dark tattoos and his unbroken will make him a target for every cruel intention this world has spent hundreds of years perfecting. Yet when he finds himself chained to a royal household with secrets so large they could rip apart the very fabric of this female dominated society, Decius finds himself unable to run away from a deep seeded need to discover just what this life might have to show him. And when he discovers that his new owner is a woman Bound to more than one lover, his education takes on an entirely new meaning. What is he, and what is this new power he's suddenly barely able to control?

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Arorah has to protect him. He's too special. He's too unique. And every Lady in the Kingdom has seen the way his navy eyes flare and his body defies even the pain of the Bond Ring. If she doesn't save him, they will dismantle him at his core. Only how will the rest of her Bond survive a savage Meridian? How can she make him see just how important her House is, and the power of the Gift inside him? She has to save him, so that he can save them all.