Elara Voss chose the Depths. She returned to her naga warlord, her veins singing for his venom, her body adapting to his coiled embrace. The Ichor-Fuse is no longer a tether-it is a claiming, rewriting her from the inside out. Scales trace her spine. Her senses sharpen to predatory levels. And her womb now cycles for one purpose: to carry his clutch.
But the human world has not forgotten her. Her uncle, Governor Maren Voss, brands her a corrupted traitor and dispatches hunters to drag her back for cleansing. Deeper in the coiled tunnels, Warlord Kael watches with emerald-eyed greed. He believes a hybrid mate is a prize to be taken, not earned, and he will break every sacred law to steal her from Zyrith's side.
Caught between a surface that wants her purged and a rival who wants her possessed, Elara must surrender completely to the venom and the bond. To survive, she must become what they fear: no longer human, not yet naga, but a Marked Mate whose loyalty is forged in forbidden pleasure and brutal blood.