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In a world where love is outlawed and a single touch means death, one leader must choose: lose her or lose everything. Inside AMES Dome, a self-contained biosphere built to survive an apocalyptic eruption, HIMM, a self-aware computer with a god complex, rules over two species: the genetically "pure" Lebensborn and the supposedly inferior Grubbians.

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Harlan Garotte, the untouchable Sovereign Overseer, has lived his entire life bound by duty and protocol, second only to HIMM. When he places Mihanna, a captivating Grubbian woman, into his breeding program, everything changes. Her defiant touch awakens senses he never knew he had. But HIMM has declared Mihanna the "Optimum Source" destined to conceive the next ruler with Harlan's Prime Breeder, Jordan, the younger brother Harlan has secretly protected for years.

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Harlan has already committed the unthinkable. As HIMM retaliates with rising Grubbian casualties and threatens genocide, Harlan uncovers a devastating truth: humanity isn't defined by blood type or divine decree. To save both species, he must destroy the machine-god he once served, but first, he must send away the two people who taught him what it means to be human.

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With Mihanna carrying a child whose father remains a dangerous secret, and Jordan potentially falling for the woman Harlan loves, time is running out. One fateful touch could ignite genocide, or unite humanity in an all-species crusade. 

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​​Wellspring Pawn is the first book in the Humanities Source Trilogy, a sultry dystopian science fiction novel. If you like strong, dominant men, smart, determined women, and devastating love triangles, you'll relish Sheley Rayne's sultry dystopian romance.