The Lurking Embrace

A Steamy Monster Romance (Swamp Sanctuary Book 1)

By: Pippa Farthingale

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

He doesn't hunt. He waits. And I just swam straight into his nest."Hesitation is death."That’s the only rule that matters when you’re seventy feet underwater in a hurricane. I’m Lexie Gage, a retrieval specialist with a mountain of debt and zero survival instinct. When a shadowy client offered to wipe my slate clean in exchange for recovering a piece of tech from the Dead Zone, I didn’t ask questions.I just dove.I didn't know the Dead Zone belonged to Kaxen Hunt.Kaxen isn't just a reclusive billionaire hiding in a glass fortress. He’s a prehistoric apex predator. He is massive, silent, and terrifyingly patient. He rules the swamp with a stillness that makes my blood run cold—literally.Because when the storm hits and the power fails, Kaxen reveals what he really is. He’s cold-blooded. He’s fading. And his biology demands a heat source to survive the night.Now I’m trapped in his submerged house, pinned beneath three hundred pounds of shivering, possessive muscle. He didn’t capture me to eat me. He caught me to bask.He says I’m the battery. He says I’m the tether.But the way he looks at me when the heat returns... that’s not survival. That’s hunger.If I run, he chases—it’s automatic.If I stay, I might never surface again.TETHERED TO THE ALPHA is a high-heat Monster Romance novella featuring a possessive Crocodile Shifter, a competence-porn heroine, and the most extreme "huddled for warmth" scenario you’ve ever read.Tropes:

• Crocodile Shifter (Sarcosuchus Entity)
• Size Difference & Power Exchange
• Forced Proximity (Storm Trap)
• "Huddled for Warmth" (Biological Necessity)
• Primal / Ambush Predator
• Happily Ever After