He has been alone so long he has forgotten how to hope.
Calista was supposed to spend her whole life aboard a generation ship.
As a botanist, she knows plants, recycled air, careful systems, and the quiet ache of dreaming about horizons she will never see. Then the impossible happens. Gunfire. Alarms. Fire in the stars. Her ship breaks apart and falls onto a red desert planet with two suns, deadly heat, and monsters beneath the sand.
Tajss is not the world she dreamed of.
It may be the one that kills her.
When Calista wanders too far from the wreckage in search of food, heatstroke drops her into the desert. She wakes in the care of Ladon, a massive dragon warrior with wings, scales, a tail, and eyes that watch her like she is the most precious thing he has ever found.
He does not speak her language.
He definitely is not human.
And he keeps saving her life anyway.
Ladon has guarded the ruined city of Draconov alone since the Devastation destroyed his people. The bijass battle-rage keeps him alive, but it has also buried too much of his past. Then a strange soft female falls from the stars, and every instinct he has left chooses her.
Calista is fragile in ways Tajss will not forgive.
She is also brave, stubborn, curious, and his.
Together, they cross a brutal desert, survive guster attacks, hide from zemlja, discover the secrets of a dead Zmaj city, and find a way to understand each other without words. But Calista’s friends are still stranded at the crash site, and the other human survivors are running out of food, water, and time.
To save them, Calista must convince Ladon to open his city to the very people who may fear him.
To keep her, Ladon must learn that love is more than claiming a treasure. It is building a future for her people as well as his own.
And when Calista realizes she carries his child, the last lonely dragon of Draconov may finally have something he thought Tajss had taken forever.
A family.
Dragon's Baby is a steamy alien dragon romance featuring a crash-landed botanist heroine, a protective Zmaj warrior, first contact, language-barrier survival, fated mates, monster attacks, a ruined alien city, found family, pregnancy, and a guaranteed happily ever after.