Dreams of the Bound Anchor

Avena Serath has been newly appointed Steward of the Khevari Dominion, and the human held beneath her home is classified as an Anchor: a living power source she was raised to believe cannot think or feel.

Then her sleep opens onto a snowbound cabin and a man whose anger, humor, and touch register more vividly than the life she leads by day.

Declan Shaw cannot say why his mind returns to his grandfather's cabin in northern Michigan, only that a woman who is clearly not human waits there, tied to the people who stripped him of his world.

Wanting her—and that cabin—to be real grows harder to resist the better he knows her.

Their connection puts the Dominion's core deception at risk, because Anchors are prisoners rather than empty vessels, and once the empire learns Declan is awake it will silence him along with anyone who treats him as human.

Avena has to stand with the empire that raised her or with the man it taught her never to recognize as human.