Matched to the Hunter

She came to study a dead civilization. She found a king who refused to die.

Kyndra Sol has spent years cataloging ancient ruins and dead languages—anything to avoid the messy complications of living people. But when she triggers a forbidden door deep in the frozen labyrinth of Kryos, she awakens something the galaxy believed extinct: the last Vulkari Guardian.

Xudod has survived alone for over a century, haunting the ice-bound halls his people built and abandoned. Savage, isolated, and bound by duty to protect secrets that could reshape the sector, he should kill the human trespassing in his sanctum.

Instead, the ancient Matchmaker AI declares her his fated mate.

She's a scholar who trusts data over instinct. He's a warrior who's forgotten what it means to be anything but alone. She's built her entire life on emotional distance. He's spent 158 years believing himself unworthy of connection.

But when enemy forces descend on the labyrinth, hunting the devastating weapon Xudod has sworn to guard, survival demands they trust the one thing that makes no logical sense: the bond burning between them. Now Kyndra must choose between the safe life she built and the fierce alien king who would burn the galaxy to keep her warm.

Matched to the Hunter — A scorching sci-fi romance where ice meets fire, logic surrenders to instinct, and two lost souls discover that the coldest places forge the fiercest bonds. Book 1 in the Celestial Matchmaking series.