Rootdeep Burrows : A Resh'ka Novel, Book Three: cozy sci-fi fantasy romance featuring fated mates, found family, primal shifters, and hybrid babies

He pulled her out of the sky. Then he signed one word: Scentless.To the badger-born of Rootdeep, scent is everything - pack, personhood, law. Elise Varro has none. She is nothing: not person, not pack, not permitted to exist. When a spore-storm traps a human xenogeologist in an alien warren, the warden who saved her has nine sleeps before the tunnels seal - and law says he leaves her at the mouth for the storm.He doesn't.Now they're locked in one den for a three-month winter. He runs hot as a forge and doesn't speak. She's touch-starved, starving, and running out of ways to hide it. Every rule says a warden doesn't feed her, warm her, or want her. Rukk breaks every one - and then breaks the seal of his own making when the elders demand her life.A monster romance with teeth and heart: - Giant grumpy alien hero / sunshine-broken heroine- Touch-starved slow burn → touch becomes law- Scent-bonding, fated mates, hibernation heat- Found family pack, exile-to-belonging, hybrid baby- He falls first. He falls so hard he breaks a species' law.- Guaranteed HEA, no cliffhangers"I don't want to die nothing." - Elise "Not pack. Not person." - Rukk, before he broke every rule he was born to keepDen. Keep. All. Always. Start the binge-reading now - Rootdeep Burrows is Book Three of the Resh'ka series, but the den door is always open.