Hearts of Obsidian NOURISH

Book 6

By: Lyra Starling

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Previously published as Hearts of Obsidian SIGNAL: Book 8 by Lyra Starling (Due to an error it, it has since been updated to Nourish)

She feeds everyone but herself.

Carmen Torres has been providing for others her entire life. Single mother. Colony cook. Now the woman responsible for feeding a settlement at war on an alien ice planet. She doesn't have time for loneliness. She doesn't have time for the quiet hunter who brings her supplies and watches her with eyes that see too much.

She definitely doesn't have time to fall in love.

He provides in silence, expecting nothing.

Soren has always been solitary. After a plague took everyone he loved nearly two centuries ago, he learned that the safest path was the lonely one. The hunt is his language—the ice, the prey, the provision. He needs no one, wants no one.
Until Carmen.

Until her fierce love for her children. Until her tired eyes and capable hands and the way she nourishes everyone while forgetting to nourish herself. Until her daughter claimed him with a child's certainty and her son watched him with wary eyes that reminded Soren of his own wounded heart.

Two practical souls. One impossible hunger.

When war makes food scarce and hunting dangerous, Carmen and Soren must partner more closely than ever. She manages the stores; he fills them. She plans the meals; he provides the game. Practical. Efficient. Nothing personal.
But Sofia has already decided he's family. Mateo is starting to trust. And when Soren doesn't return from a hunting expedition, Carmen discovers that somewhere between the supply runs and the shared meals, she stopped being able to imagine her life without him.

The hunger she's been ignoring wasn't for food at all.
It was for someone who would stay.

Book 6 in the Hearts of Obsidian series. While part of an ongoing series with a war arc, this book contains a complete romance with no cliffhanger and can be enjoyed as a standalone.

For readers who love Ruby Dixon's Ice Planet Barbarians, Honey Phillips' Alien Warrior series, and romances where love is built through daily acts of care.