Ahrick (The Alliance Rescue #7)

For eighteen months, Merrilee Sanchez has been forced to act as a spy—a pawn for a human trafficker who keeps her siblings as collateral.

When her cover shatters, the Alliance makes her an offer: infiltrate Palaydium’s brutal prison planet and kill the man who owns her. It’s her only shot at freedom.

But Fange City isn’t just a crime den. It’s a death trap where warriors bleed in combat pits—and Merrilee is about to become the prize.

Ahrick has spent ten years in those same pits, fighting to atone for his past as an Alliance assassin. When he wins Merrilee in combat, he plans only to protect her.

Instead, she becomes his reason to fight for something other than survival.

As conspiracies unravel, Hewes seizes control and the Alliance’s true agenda emerges from the shadows, Merrilee and Ahrick face an impossible choice: surrender to safety or risk everything for each other.