BOUND TO THE SERPENT

A lone bounty hunter, a serpent king with a clan to avenge, and a contract that changes everything. Hernando never works with partners—for eight years, he has hunted down the men who killed his foster father, crossing names off his list one by one, with the last name still at large. Yinshuo is the last of the serpent royal bloodline; thirty years ago his entire clan was wiped out, and every day since he has waited in the darkness for the one man who gave the order. A failed mission throws them together when Hernando bleeds out in the wreckage of a derelict ship, and Yinshuo finds him, saves him, then binds him with a soul bond—an unbreakable serpent clan contract where one is wounded and the other bleeds, one walks away and the other falls, one dies and the other cannot live on alone. Hernando wakes up chained to a stranger, furious and trapped, but the man who killed his foster father and the man who wiped out Yinshuo's clan are one and the same: Eros Varden, a hunter who has waited thirty years to add the serpent king to his collection as his final trophy. Now they share a bond, an enemy, and a crumbling ship on the edge of the galaxy—but the soul bond is more than a chain, it is a connection, every heartbeat, every wound, every buried memory. He was once his target. He became his reason.