Claimed by the Ninth Orbit

A dark M/M sci-fi romance about alien bonding, forced proximity, and a man whose body recognizes the truth before his mind can refuse it.

He came to prove the bond was a myth. The orbit had already chosen him.

Dr. Elias Cain trusts data, discipline, and control. A former soldier turned expedition scientist, he arrives on the Ninth Orbit to study impossible black-glass formations and disprove the reports command has tried to bury—reports of men who never came home, and of bonds command insists don’t exist.

Then Kael appears before him—seven feet tall, inhuman, controlled, and beautiful in a way Elias has no language for. The moment their eyes meet, something inside Elias answers. A second rhythm starts beneath his ribs, a pull he can’t measure, a need that arrives below the level of argument. Kael knows exactly what’s begun. Elias only knows that every rule keeping him safe is starting to fail.

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A scientist. An alien world. A bond his body understands before he does.

Elias came to the Ninth Orbit for answers. What he finds is a planet that doesn’t behave the way a planet should. Black-glass spirals shift beneath observation, and his instruments fail to explain what his body has already started to feel. The old expedition reports called it bonding. Elias calls it bad science until it happens to him.

Kael isn’t human. He isn’t safe. He isn’t a theory Elias can classify, measure, or dismiss. And the closer Elias gets to him, the harder it becomes to tell the difference between danger, desire, and the terrifying relief of surrender.

Claimed by the Ninth Orbit opens The Ninth Orbit Series, a dark, high-heat M/M sci-fi romance in which the planet’s mystery and Elias’s bond develop together—every answer the black glass gives up pulls him closer to Kael, and every step toward Kael changes what the planet is willing to show. The relationship is inseparable from the fate of the world it happens on. Elias and Kael’s story continues in Bound by the Ninth Orbit.

Book One begins with a formation that shouldn’t move—and a bond that has already chosen him.

Continue The Ninth Orbit Series

Book 1: Claimed by the Ninth Orbit — He came to prove the bond was a myth. The orbit had already chosen him.

Book 2: Bound by the Ninth Orbit — He thought the signal was one-way. The Orbit had been answering the whole time.

Book 3: Becoming the Ninth Orbit — He was never meant to belong to it. Now the Orbit is becoming him.

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