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Prisoner: Astral Order: Nyx and Bauwys
Paperback
Series: Vanguardians, Book 3
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 16 2025
Pages: 284
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The most dangerous secrets are the ones worth killing for.
He's a hidden prince imprisoned as a traitor.
She's the assassin sent to kill him.
For years, Bauwys Hatcher has lived behind another man's name.
Royal by blood. Undercover operative by choice. A master manipulator entrusted with secrets powerful people would kill to protect.
Now his cover is blown.
Branded a traitor and locked inside the very prison system he once helped oversee, Bauwys knows his usefulness is running out-and so is his time. His enemies can't afford to let him live long enough to reveal what he knows.
Then Nyx Solaris walks into his cell.
Fresh from the Shadow Syndicate Academy, Nyx has spent years being molded into the perfect weapon: disciplined, obedient, lethal. Her first assignment should be simple.
Infiltrate the prison.
Pose as a guard.
Kill Bauwys Hatcher.
No questions. No witnesses. No mistakes.
There's just one problem.
Bauwys knows exactly what she is.
Charming, calculating, and infuriatingly perceptive, he sees through Nyx's disguise almost immediately. But instead of exposing her, he does something far more dangerous.
He starts asking questions.
About her orders.
Her training.
Her loyalty.
And the organization she's trusted with her life.
Nyx came prepared to kill a traitor. She wasn't prepared for a man who makes her question everything she's been taught to believe-or for the impossible electric pull between them.
The Zing.
The unmistakable connection between Vanguardian fated mates.
And possibly the cruelest joke destiny has ever played.
Because Nyx's first mission is to murder the man fate says belongs to her.
Bauwys has spent his life surviving through secrets, strategy, and knowing exactly how to manipulate the people around him. If the naive young assassin sent to kill him can become the key to his escape, he'll use her.
At least, that's the plan.
Until manipulating Nyx becomes protecting her.
Until escaping without her becomes unthinkable.
Until the hidden prince who has spent a lifetime pretending to be someone else realizes she may be the first person who sees the man beneath all the lies.
With his execution approaching and powerful enemies closing in, Nyx must decide whether obedience is worth killing for-and Bauwys must choose between protecting the secrets that could change their world or saving the woman he was never supposed to love.
She was sent to be his executioner.
He was supposed to be her first kill.
Fate had other plans.
PRISONER: ASTRAL ORDER is a slow-burn science-fiction romance featuring enemies to lovers, hidden royalty, an assassin heroine, secret identities, forbidden love, fated mates, cat-and-mouse tension, an undercover mission, morally gray characters, forced proximity, the Zing, and a guaranteed HEA.
PRISONER is a standalone romance in the interconnected Vanguardians series. Nyx and Bauwys get their happily-ever-after, so you can begin their story here. Want the complete Vanguardian experience? Start with NOMAD: FORSAKEN LORIAN.
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