BEFORE THE FIRE: Galactic adventure with romance and danger, Survivor heroine and alien warrior love story (Savage Stars Trilogy)

Before she was the galaxy’s most feared bounty hunter, she was just a girl no one saved. Vala Rho was sixteen when the Syndicate bought her—just one more girl in a cage, broken for their entertainment. For years, she endured their violence, learned their secrets, and dreamed of the stars beyond her cell. At twenty, she made her escape—fighting, bleeding, and carving her name into Syndicate space, one body at a time. Freedom isn’t given. It’s taken. And Vala is done being property. Before the fire, there was survival. Before the war, there was vengeance. Before she owned her future, she bought a warlord. This is the story of how it all began.