Content levels
Trigger warnings
Positive tags
Hero archetypes
Heroine archetypes
Protagonist archetypes
Tropes
Synopsis
We're fighting for our lives, living for reward challenges, in front of an intergalactic audience-and, oh yeah, apparently the huge winged alien is now my mate. I've always been a reality tv junkie, heading up a fantasy league and hosting watch parties at my place. I jumped at the chance to apply to one, and my entire reality tv obsessed girl gang does too, drinking too many margaritas in the process. We didn't care that none of us had ever heard of it, or that the premise is a bit too physical for us couch potatoes- there's no way they'll pick us, anyway. Except... they do pick us. And the show's not set on Earth. Nope. We're starring on the first season of Mated & Afraid, and that paperwork we rushed through had a whole lot of fine print we didn't read. I've been matched with a Draegon alien- and he's been mated to me, marking me with the poison (yep! Poison!) that means I'm his. We're dropped into a biosphere, and the game is easy enough to understand: make it to the exit and we win. That is, until the supposedly uninhabited moon we're on turns out to not be uninhabited at all- and the artificial intelligence we've awoken? It has a whole different idea of fun and games.
Tags
Alien Jeopardy: content & age rating
Intended for adult readers (18+).
Adults only. Contains explicit sexual content between human and alien characters (fated mate bond with marking/claiming), moderate survival violence, and potentially dubious consent elements within the mate bond dynamic.
What to know going in
This book has moderate violence, steamy sexual content, and mild language. Content notes include captivity, dubious consent, and forced proximity (see the full list above).
Who'll love this
Adult readers will enjoy the humorous fish-out-of-water premise and steamy alien romance wrapped in a deadly survival game.