With "Weyoun and Mia: His Enemy's Daughter" and "Keevan and Annora: Forged in the Desert Heat" completed months ago, now comes the long-awaited final chapter in the Vorta Brides Trilogy. Yelgrun, the Vorta of "The Magnificent Ferengi" in season 6, is the star of this grand finale. Executive producer Ira Steven Behr was a longtime superfan of rock star Iggy Pop (whom I also remember from The Crow 2: City of Angels) and always wanted to work with him on DS9, and "The Magnificent Ferengi" was the chance. And for those of you who haven't read "Weyoun and Mia: His Enemy's Daughter" and "Keevan and Annora: Forged in the Desert Heat", I HIGHLY recommend them first before anyone reads this to avoid confusion.

This third and final tale is named after yet another Harlequin romance novel of the same name, by Anne O'Brien - and with inspiration from the animated feature "Quest for Camelot" as well as its novel by Vera Chapman, "The King's Damosel". The cousin of Annora O'Neal from the previous, Lynet is the daughter of Admiral William Ross, and she is a recently promoted Starfleet lieutenant who is attacked along with the crew her mother commands by the Dominion. Surviving the assault but costing her eyesight, she is kidnapped and believed to be dead by the rest of the Federation. Forced to marry Yelgrun, she unwillingly trembles but does not surrender to her fear of the impatient, highly temperamental Vorta - and the man who claimed her is more tortured than she realized. Slowly, she and her captor begin to fall for one another, one step and sense at a time (the words coming from the plot of "His Enemy's Daughter" which eventually inspired the story of Weyoun and Mia).

Disclaimer: I own only Lynet as well as the previous leading ladies, Mia and Annora, from the previous two.

Prologue

Wild at Heart

Born in the Bozeman Mountains of said city in Montana, Lynet Ross had a long history of wild living, hunting in the forest and savoring the thrill of a phaser, hunting stick and assorted blade work - protecting not only herself but others around her. She never stayed in the house, never once stayed behind from a mission given by Starfleet, and never once disobeyed a direct order.

Lynet always dreamed of joining Starfleet as both her parents served - her father was Captain William Ross and her mother Lt. Commander Julianna Ross née Carlyle, but both parents were away from Earth much of the time, leaving her and sister Kayley - who was six years her senior - alone for the elder to care for her younger sibling as well as herself, even managed school together while under the care of a longtime friend of the father, until Lynet was ten years old when her sister contracted a deadly illness that she passed away within half a year from. She was left alone to fend for herself until the caregiver who was like an uncle to her and her deceased elder sister died when she was thirteen years old. Until she was seventeen years old, Lynet fended for herself in the wilderness whilst completing her home schooling and hunting for fresh wild kill to sustain her life.

Both her parents were impressed with her ability to fight and prowl as were her instructors and personal trainers, but Lynet possessed more prowess than any Klingon ever would - even more than her cousin Annora, daughter of her father's older brother James Ross. Yet no one would ever know that the hardness on her soul was due to the fact that she raised herself in the Bozeman Mountains - and the betrayal of her father's friend and mentor onto her very being. As time went on, she learned to distrust any man who crossed her path even though she came to accept it as a drive towards her future.

A young woman now, Lynet could still remember the first time she was taken flight into space. The excitement was uncanny, and she could feel it in her eyes and into her soul that the stars mirrored her irises - and it was as if she truly belonged amongst them. To think of the other races in deep space she would encounter as soon as she left Starfleet Academy...

Unfortunately, her future freedom and pursuit of happiness came at a price besides the wrong done to her as a teenager. Her parents had gone through a divorce when she had just turned seventeen, the strain and distances of their careers keeping them apart and away from their two daughters; it was the loss of their eldest that affected them the most, and impacted their surviving youngest who swore from then on that she would NEVER marry or have a family of her own.

During her studies and eventually becoming a cadet, Lynet isolated herself from crowds and kept to her own little world; hunting was kept from her as being an officer for the Federation would take up one of her prized hobbies. Her soul was shattered slightly when she was restrained from ever leaving the academy grounds due to her wild nature. But over time, she learned to live with it as she had learned to live with her sister's passing and the shame that followed. She received a promotion fast to Ensign when she was assigned to her mother's starbase in the Alpha Quadrant: Starbase 323.

An exceptional young officer as she fought long and hard for, Ensign Lynet Ross always obeyed orders, yet while she changed externally and cooperated well with her fellow officers, the inner hardness remained as did her fiery temper and cynical view of the new species around her. But when she will become lieutenant junior grade, then her entire world would change forever with a chance encounter and assault by the mysterious and deadly Dominion.

During "Keevan and Annora: Forged in the Desert Heat", it was mentioned that Ross had no sons but an ex-wife and a daughter whom he had not seen or heard from for a year before the Dominion War began. Annora O'Neal was once close to her cousin when they were younger until reaching adulthood when that closeness died. No siblings of the unknown cousin was ever mentioned, but when it came to the mention of no word from his ex and daughter, I believe that Ross could not tell his niece the truth for his own reasons.

Kayley, the name of Lynet's older sister who died at the tender age of sixteen, was also the name of the Lynette character from the animated movie "Quest for Camelot", inspired by the book by Vera Chapman. The aspects of the character also compare to her novel counterpart.

Lynet was based off of that particular character in terms of being a tomboy into combat and hunting instead of feminine interests. Mia from the first story is very fun, flirty, adventurous and feminine while Lynet is the opposite, and much harder in personality. Annora from the second story kind of walks the line between tomboy and feminine, but just like both other girls, she's interested in adventure. All three girls eventually end up falling for the wrong man who actually turns out to be the perfect one.