Only Cold Depths

Vesper Quill used to be a lab worker at a corporation owned by the Regals. Now her truebond with Kyrion Caldaren has made her one of the most wanted fugitives in the Archipelago Galaxy. She is a seer, inventor and engineer with a gift for working out how things work, but she cannot yet control her growing magic or her new psionic abilities, and if she does not learn to use them, she and Kyrion will not survive.

Kyrion is a rogue member of the Arrows, the Imperium's elite warriors, who are now hunting the pair. A powerful psion with telekinetic, telepathic and telempathic abilities, he is used to being feared and obeyed, not to being on the run, and he will do whatever it takes to keep Vesper safe.

After weeks of dodging bounty hunters and the Arrows, the two accept an invitation to a distant planet that is meant to be a refuge for truebonded couples. New enemies soon close in, Kyrion's fear of losing Vesper returns, and the plan behind it all proves worse than either of them expected.

The fourth book in Jennifer Estep's Galactic Bonds series, a space opera that blends science fiction, fantasy and romance, with magic and technology side by side. It picks up a few weeks after Only Hard Problems, and the series is best read in order.