Love and revenge collide in a battle for survival when a widow finds herself falling for the very man she's sworn to kill. Isla can't let the past go. Her clan has won back their planet and settled old scores-but it isn't enough. She hates those she blames for her husband's death. She won't rest until the enemy clan-lord is dead. And so, she sets out to kill him. Elijah leads a powerful galactic clan. Furious that he has lost the planet his father only recently won back for his people, he seeks to establish order in his territory and strengthen his clan's defenses against their enemies. However, he doesn't realize his true nemesis lies closer to home. His own brother is plotting to overthrow him. And an assassin has just boarded his battlecruiser-a vengeful woman intent on killing him. But the gods have a twisted sense of humor. When disaster strikes, Elijah and Isla find themselves stranded on an inhospitable planet. Forced to work together, they must fight for survival, not with each other. And when passion ignites, they discover that the boundary between love and hate is a fragile thing. Book Three of The Galactic Clan Wars series, THE CLAN-LORD'S BANE is a stand-alone romance in an exciting new space fantasy series.