Books in the Taken series

Isa Telwyn always thought she was normal. Ish. Sure, she can taste lies and has dreams filled with impossibly beautiful places that don't exist, but who doesn't have a quirk or two? It's not like it interferes with her quiet life as a small-town librarian.As a storm closes in on her sleepy home town, her normal life is knocked sideways by a godlike warrior who is the stuff of dreams. The ridiculous claim he makes-that she is some kind of empress who is the only hope for her subjects on a distant world-is true. At least he believes it. But as the sexy, honorable warrior rips apart her normal life and drives her toward her destiny, she realizes that life as an empress is not exactly the cushy job that Hollywood had led her to believe. Darkness and danger lurk inside the palace walls, haunting her at every turn.Warrian is a man of honor, sworn to protect the last of the imperial line, no matter how feisty and unruly she may be. His mission on Earth was supposed to be simple: find the empress and bring her home. But his superiors had not taken into account the willful, beautiful woman raised with strange human ideas-like that she should have a choice in the life she leads. As he soon learns, when the empress is involved, even the most honorable man is tempted-though whether to kiss her or throttle her, he's not sure.Torn between two worlds, bound by their sense of duty, and caught in a maelstrom of forbidden love, their time is running out. The storm is closing in, and Isa and Warrian must act fast if they are to have any hope of saving the two worlds they love from utter destruction.

Zoe Last is a busy woman. She has a business to run, her dead father's last riddle to solve, and an army of bad guys working for a man who wants to dissect her brain and study its contents. But who doesn't have challenges?She's spent her whole life learning to fit in, playing the good little human and biding her time until the war raging on her home world is over. But when a sexy, tattooed stranger comes into her shop, looking for her, she knows her quiet life of blending in is over. It's time to run.Born a destroyer among creators, Talan has always known his path would be filled with pain and violence. It's not what his parents hoped for, and not the life he would have chosen for himself, but when the beautiful, brilliant Zoe enters his life, he finally knows why he was born broken. A creative, talented, easily distracted woman like her would never survive without a man like him to protect her. Now all he has to do is convince her of it before she runs right into the hands of the enemy, and then convince himself to keep his hands off of her sweet, sexy body long enough to do his job.Together, they must solve a convoluted riddle, find a lost treasure, and figure out a way to keep Zoe out of the clutches of a sadistic killer who can rip secrets from his victim's mind with a single glance. With the enemy closing in and the fate of two worlds hanging in the balance, there's not a second to spare…

Dating has never been high on Ava's list of priorities. She's been too busy helping her little sister through college and her mom through chemo. Besides, no man she's ever met has stirred her desire, leaving her wondering what all the fuss is about. Until the night an intriguing stranger walks into the restaurant where she works and sets his sights on her.Finally, all of the girly nonsense her friends have spewed about being swept away by sweaty dreams of hot men finally makes sense. And then some.She's more than willing to see where her hormones lead her when she realizes that Radek is not just a sexy man looking for a little fun. He's here to take her home to a world she can barely remember to fight an enemy she knows nothing about.Radek's life has never been easy. Born on a world ravaged by war, forced to serve out the remainder of his dead father's prison sentence, and poisoned to ensure his obedience, he's now been sent to Earth on a suicide mission. But he doesn't let it get him down. Every day he's still alive to fight is a good one. Even when the feisty woman he's been tasked to bring home refuses to come along quietly.He must find a way to convince her to help their people, even if he has to use force to make it happen. The lives of billions hang in the balance, and if he can't gain Ava's trust in time, everyone they both love is going to die...