He found the mate his dragon would never let go.
Jolie has survived four brutal weeks on Tajss since her generation ship crashed into the red desert. She has a room in the ancient city, a lab full of strange alien plants, friends who need her, and a body that is quietly losing the fight against the planet itself.
The heat is too much.
The thirst never stops.
And when Jolie sneaks outside the city to collect samples, Tajss finally catches her.
Monsters close in. The sand turns deadly. Then a massive dragon warrior erupts from the desert and saves her life.
Sverre is not the Zmaj warrior the humans already know.
He is an outsider. A survivor. A male haunted by old failures, dim memories of war, and the bijass battle-rage that has made every Zmaj alone and dangerous for too long. He should avoid another warrior's territory. He should stay hidden. He should not carry the soft human female back to his cave and devote every breath to keeping her alive.
But Jolie is dying without epis.
And every instinct in Sverre screams that she is his.
Jolie wakes in a cave with no shared language, no clear way home, and one enormous alien protector who feeds her, watches over her, and refuses to understand that her friends will be searching for her. He is terrifying. Gentle. Possessive. Beautiful in ways no human man has ever been.
She should be furious.
Instead, she starts to feel safe.
When Sverre takes her back to Draconov, safety shatters. Ladon sees another Zmaj in his territory and the bijass turns protection into violence. Humans panic. Gershom whispers that monsters should be banished. And the threat Sverre came to warn them about is still out there.
The Zzlo are coming.
To save Jolie, Sverre must return for the epis her body needs. To save the city, he must help awaken Draconov's ancient shields and prove that two broken peoples can become one tribe before the desert, the monsters, or old fear destroys them all.
Jolie thought she was just trying to survive.
Sverre is about to show her she was always meant to be treasured.
Dragon's Mate is a steamy alien dragon romance featuring a possessive Zmaj warrior, a stranded scientist heroine, fated mates, language-barrier intimacy, forced proximity survival, epis healing, monster attacks, city politics, shield activation, pregnancy, found family, and a guaranteed happily ever after.