Dead Drop by Allegra Rose

She jumped so she would die a clean death.
Ada is the best fighter her fortified settlement has: four years of wasteland combat, a gate watch she trained from nothing, a reputation the Ordained slavers have learned to respect. When their raid shatters her city’s defenses and corners her on a fifty-three-story rooftop, she does the math. The stairs are gone. The Ordained are at the door. The only exit is straight down.

She steps off the ledge.
He catches her before she hits the ground.

The Apex. Crimson skin, massive horns, and at nine feet tall, the undisputed alpha male of the local territory. He dives out of the sky and claims her as his mate mid-fall. His venom makes her pliable. His thick prehensile tail holds her close. His knot locks her to his body. His nonstop mating cycle begins before she hits the ground.
Ada was prepared to die. She was not prepared for what her body does when a monster decides she belongs to him. She was not prepared for the intelligence behind his amber eyes. She was not prepared for the moment the feral rut breaks and the male underneath speaks in complete sentences.

She was definitely not prepared to be pregnant.
Dead Drop is a full-length dark post-apocalyptic monster romance with explicit content, dubious consent, knotting, forced proximity, and a heroine who fell fifty-three stories into the arms of something that won’t let her go. Ever.

Includes: captive monster romance · post-apocalyptic world · fighter heroine · non-human hero · rut & knotting · extreme size difference · forced proximity · dubcon-to-chosen · earned HEA