Starside

Starside

Author: Alex Aster Listening Length: 20h 1m

Enter the enchanting and deadly world of Starside, where swords have magic and power isn’t inherited – it’s claimed, from No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Alex Aster. Hundreds of years ago, a brutal war split a land in two. Starside is the realm of magic and immortals –the descendants of the gods, living in ...

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At that first brush of Raker’s callused fingers beneath my shirt, my nerves catch fire.

I don’t know if it’s this demon’s heat, or maybe I’m just this touch-starved, but my skin prickles everywhere, and it’s like a new sense awakening. Raker’s gone very still in front of me. I wonder if he feels it too, this fire in his veins, this deep, pulsing ache.

The quest is a distant thought. The fact that he’s been my enemy for years doesn’t seem important.

No, right now, I feel raw and needy, and when he finally drags his rough knuckles up my spine, slowly, like he has all the time in the world to discover me in the dark, the flames behind my back expand, strengthening, unleashing a toe-curling, blood-smoldering desire that nearly brings me to my knees.