Format: Kindle, 504 pages
Release Date: October 29, 2024
Publisher: Jennifer Estep
Source: Publisher
Genre: Space Opera / Science Fiction
A WOMAN WHO CAN’T CONTROL HER POWER
Everyone knows the name Vesper Quill. I used to be a lowly lab rat working in a Regal-owned corporation, but thanks to my truebond with Kyrion Caldaren, I’m now one of the most wanted fugitives in the Archipelago Galaxy.
Kyrion and I have spent the last few weeks avoiding bounty hunters, along with the Arrows, the elite Imperium warriors tasked with capturing us. Now we’ve journeyed to a distant planet that’s supposed to be a refuge for truebonded couples, but when new enemies appear, we’re once again in grave danger.
As a seer, inventor, and engineer, I’m skilled at figuring out how things work, but I can’t quite understand my growing magic and newfound psionic abilities. The clock is ticking, and if I don’t figure out how to tap into my power, I’ll doom myself to a gruesome fate, along with Kyrion.
A MAN WHO CAN’T LET GO OF HIS FEAR . . .
As Kyrion Caldaren, I’m used to being respected and feared, especially given my telekinesis, telepathy, telempathy, and other powerful psionic abilities. What I’m not used to is being on the run, but as a rogue Arrow, I’ll do anything to protect Vesper.
Just when I think we’ve finally reached a safe haven, trouble finds us again, reigniting all my fears about losing Vesper.
When the cold depths of our enemies’ plan are finally revealed, the truth is more terrifying than anything I could imagine. Soon Vesper and I are fighting for our lives again, but even with our growing truebond power, this is one battle we might not survive.
Only Cold Depths is the fourth installment in author Jennifer Estep's Galactic Bonds series which takes place right after the events of Only Hard Problems which featured Zane and Asterin Armas. The story alternates between Vesper Quill and Kyrion Caldaren. Vesper is an inventor, engineer, and seer who has escaped enemies like Holloway and Techwave who want her recaptured. Kyrion is the former leader of the Arrows and has taken to protecting Vesper even from herself.
The couple are the most wanted individuals in the galaxy thanks to their truebond connection. With bounty hunters and elite warriors trying to track them down for their master, Holloway who wants to siphon their abilities for himself, Vesper and Kyrion jump from planet to planet looking for a sanctuary to deal with the reality of their new bond, and what abilities Vesper has come into since, and trying to figure out if she wants a connection with her new family which was revealed in book # 2 and Zane's book. What better place than Asterin's?
I have to say that Zane has grown on me. He has gone from a dangerous enemy to something more to Vesper who really is confused by the emotions that Zane and his family show her during this book. Especially Wendell. While Vesper and Kyrion explore their new truebond, trying to figure out how it works best, but also struggling with their individual challenges, it helps that the couple runs into another bonded pair who gives them a hint as to why the connection is on the fritz.
Finally, the story ends on a cliffhanger and I pray that the author finds a way to pay Vesper's mother for all the hurt and heartache she has caused from calling her names, to doing nothing to try to make up for her machinations against everyone.
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