Daughters of Man: Prize Match (Angel-Wing Saga #3)

By Brenna Lyons

Sabine has come to Sakk, a winged female, a prize match. Her mate will be an older male, a general or master general. She has no choice in that. The only power she has is to refuse an abusive mate.

Sahtahn has no intention of fighting to approach the prize match, but when Sabine is attacked on her way to the riser, he changes his mind. She's not the cold woman he'd believed her. She's a frightened young woman in need of a gentle hand. If she accepts his advances, he will have the greatest prize imaginable.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Fireborn Publishing
• Release date: Feb 17, 2017
• ISBN: 9781946004505

Brenna Lyons

Brenna Lyons wears many hats, sometimes all on the same day: ex-president of EPIC, author of more than 100 published works, teacher, wife, mother... She's a member of ERWA, IWOFA, Broad Universe, and more than 60 other author groups. She's taken Spinetingler's Book of the Year for 2007, and she's also finaled for multiple times for the EPPIE, PEARL (including one HM, second to Angela Knight), CAPA, and once for a Dream Realm Award. Brenna writes in 25 established worlds plus stand-alone fiction books and stories, poetry, articles, and essays. She's a bestseller in indie/e fantasy and horror, straight genre and cross-genres thereof. Brenna has been termed "one of the most deviant erotic minds in the publishing world...not for the weak." (Rachelle for Fallen Angels Reviews) Milieu-heavy dark work is practically Brenna's calling card, with or without the erotic content. She teaches classes in everything from POV studies to advanced editing, networking to marketing.

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Daughters of Man: Prize Match

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Chapter One

Sabine pressed her cheek to the bulkhead and listened to the speaker on the other side. An amplified voice blared orders for offloading of the matches.

Of me. Of all those like me. Her heart pounded in apprehension.

Despite what the priests on her home world had said, it was hard to anticipate being claimed as mate to a male she'd never met. What if they were wrong? What if the male wasn't kind? What if she felt no attraction to him?

Sabine! Anlu shouted, rushing to over to take her hands. Isn't it wonderful? Sakk, at last.

She managed a strained smile in return. Yes, I know.

How old will he be? How needing of a female?

They're beautiful, you know.

Sabine stared at her, darkening in the realization that Anlu was gazing longingly at the tips of her miniature wings.

The wings had been both a blessing and a curse to Sabine.

Because of them, Sabine hadn't been required to bear a child to the priests before becoming mate to a Sakk male. It also meant that she'd been granted freedom until her twenty-second yan instead of being bred at eighteen. The rare winged matches, no matter how small or malformed the wings might be, were revered; as such, they went to claim uneducated in the touch of another male.

Because of the wings, males would fight to claim her. Only the strongest and highest-ranking would have the chance to become her mate. Where Anlu might be claimed by an older commander as a level-two match, only a