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Spotlight on Bella Barwin

December 31, 2025 by marianne h donley in category Apples & Oranges by Marianne H. Donley, Spotlight tagged as Bella Barwin

Bella Barwin writes galaxies ruled by dark dominance, desire, and the sting of surrender. The Alien Masters of A’Llure series features stand-alone romances in an interconnected world, with alien masters and feisty dragon heroines.

Claiming His Dragon:
A Dark Sci-Fi Alien Romance
Alien Masters of A’Llure Book 1

Jenna Barwin

ISBN: 9781952755309
Hidden Press Publishing
2025

My palm itches with the desire to tame her.

Ordered by my A’Llurian clan to choose a mate from the Drag’gon ambassadors, I expect cold negotiations and strategic pairings.

Then I see her.

Elegant. Spirited. With eyes that challenge and lips made for defiance. She awakens something deep inside me—something primal. My laz’zo stirs with the need to claim, to guide, to protect.

But she’s royalty, and royalty doesn’t follow orders or submits. Especially not to a hardened starship commander like me.

She’ll fight. She’ll defy. But I have ways of teaching obedience—lessons I’ll impress upon her slowly, thoroughly.

Until she learns. Not all cages are cold. Not all chains are visible. And love? Love can be the most exquisite restraint of all.

Because in the end, she’ll be mine—bound to me in every way that matters.

Capturing His Dragon
A Dark Sci-Fi Alien Romance
Alien Masters of A’Llure Book 2

Bella Barwin

978-1952755323
Hidden Depths Publishing
2025

She isn’t what she seems…

Standing in my spaceship’s brig, she’s a vision of fire—hair the color of a blood-lit sunset, skin patterns shimmering with edges of molten gold. Breathtaking.

But she’s also a stowaway—a shapeshifting dragon who infiltrated my spaceship, slipped past my crew, and dared to think she could remain unseen.

Defiant. Untamed. A potential enemy spy I cannot ignore.

Yet she stirs every ruthless instinct I keep buried, igniting a hunger as dangerous as it is undeniable.

And soon, she’ll learn that in my world, actions have consequences—consequences that are deeply bound together with desire…