In the first book of the Bound by Batasurna series, ​Kalaire, a Royal Science Division field ecologist, is studying the Batasurna Mind Rift phenomenon when she and her team are suddenly recalled home to the Spiral system. No explanation. What she never expected was that everything has changed. No one answers their hails. The space station is silent. And the neighboring planet, Erupea, has become a wasteland.

 

The only message left behind is an obscure, broken transmission from the Empress. A message that leads her down a road of mystery and discovery about what truly happened to their home. And how it all ties together.

 

Luken, a native of Erupea, is Kalaire's only ally after she becomes separated from her team. He blames her people for the destruction of his world and the soul-bond his people held sacred. He wants nothing to do with her. But the longer they survive together, the more undeniable the pull between them becomes.

 

And the more she begins to fear him.

 

Because if the bond between them is real, then one of them dying isn’t the worst outcome—it’s what happens to the one who survives.