Fed

She stumbled into his mountain. Now she can never leave.Three years alone in the wasteland have stripped Mara down to bone and desperation. Starving, radiation-sick, and out of options, she takes shelter in a cave system during a storm.She’s not alone.Var is a super mutant—eight feet of muscle and gray-green skin, an outcast rejected by his own kind for being too soft, too questioning. His hidden refuge holds everything needed for survival: warmth, safety, and food prepared with surprising artistry.He offers her a deal.Stay and serve him, or walk back into the wasteland to die.The terms are clear. The arrangement is strictly transactional. He hunts and cooks extraordinary meals; she provides intimate service he cannot get elsewhere. Neither expects the forced proximity to become something more.But as days stretch into weeks, the monster who captured her shows unexpected tenderness—remembering how she likes her coffee, building her a reading nook, holding her through nightmares he doesn’t understand. And the woman who agreed out of desperation finds herself wanting to stay for reasons that have nothing to do with survival.In a world where everyone takes what they can, can two broken souls learn to give instead?A post-apocalyptic monster romance featuring forced proximity, a captive-to-lovers arrangement, explicit heat, and the slow burn between a survivor and the gentle giant who steals her heart. Full-length standalone novel with HEA.