They knew they were mates...

Talikha Tella had seen Aleksei Koukleva in a lecture hall at Oxford University and known the was his. She had plans. Big plans. Every single cousin of hers who had ever told her she'd never find a mate would suck it because she had, and he was beautiful.

Aleksei Koukleva had never seen a more beautiful woman that the student who had grabbed and kept his attention at a lecture he'd done as a favor to a friend. He was the mate he had always imagined. He could not wait to get her back to Russia and his Tiger Streak.

Being kidnapped, beaten and halfway starved to death changes a person and Tali doubts everything she ever thought she knew about her mate. They have to fight to keep themselves together. The hardest battle must be fought within themselves.