Böcker av Kate Stevens

For thousands of years, the Sollirians abducted children from their homeworlds to fuel their magic.Inez would know. She was one of them.Like other star-maids, she was tethered to an archlord, Rylec. Unlike other star-maids, she fell for him, and he helped her escape.Three years later, Inez can't forget Rylec or the other star-maids she left behind. Unable to return to Earth, she's spent her time smuggling others out on unsuspecting intergalactic cruise ships.Then, a sudden knock on her door shatters her world - it's Rylec, her former archlord. Her current husband, one pesky detail she tried her best to forget.Exiled for helping Inez flee, Rylec is determined to bring her back to Sollir. Despite how much she's craved his touch, Inez swore she'd never be a star-maid again.But Rylec will risk everything to claim her once and for all...Archlord of Exile is the first installment in the Star-Marked Mates of Sollir series. Each short but spicy enemies-to-lovers romance features a wicked alien lord who can't resist his star-marked mate. While each story has a standalone romance, the series includes an overarching plot and should be read in order for maximum enjoyment.Note: Archlord of Exile previously published in the Claimed Among the Stars anthology.

Centering on cases of sexual violence, this book illuminates the contested introduction of British and French colonial criminal justice in the Pacific Islands during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, focusing on Fiji, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu/New Hebrides. It foregrounds the experiences of Indigenous Islanders and indentured laborers in the colonial court system, a space in which marginalized voices entered the historical record. Rape and sexual assault trials reveal how hierarchies of race, gender and status all shaped the practice of colonial law in the courtroom and the gendered experiences of colonialism. Trials provided a space where men and women narrated their own story and at times challenged the operation of colonial law. Through these cases, Gender, Violence and Criminal Justice in the Colonial Pacific highlights the extent to which colonial bureaucracies engaged with and affected private lives, as well as the varied ways in which individuals and communities responded to such intrusions and themselves reshaped legal practices and institutions in the Pacific.With bureaucratic institutions unable to deal with the complex realities of colonial lives, Stevens reveals how the courtroom often became a theatrical space in which authority was performed, deliberately obscuring the more complex and violent practices that were central to both colonialism and colonial law-making. Exploring the intersections of legal pluralism and local pragmatism across British and French colonialization in the Pacific, this book shows how island communities and early colonial administrators adopted diverse and flexible approaches towards criminal justice, pursuing alternative forms of justice ranging from unofficial courts to punitive violence in order to deal with cases of sexual assault.