Alien's Stranded Mate
(2026)(The fifth book in the Cosmic Connections Alien Dating Agency series)
A novel by Emerald Cox
A safety auditor. An alien engineer. A star-viewing ride that falls off the station.
Phoebe Rourke came to Cosmic Connections to certify the station's human-readiness, not to let its dating algorithm pick her future.
As a Terran safety auditor, Phoebe trusts exits, checklists, and systems that do what they promise. Then the matching program pairs her with Korrin, the station's earnest Vraxian chief systems engineer: seven feet of careful competence, inconvenient warmth, and one extremely expressive tail.
Korrin built the star-viewing capsules to give new matches a safe look at the universe. Taking Phoebe on an inspection ride should prove the system works.
Instead, a tether failure turns their first "date" into an emergency jettison.
Now Phoebe and Korrin are stranded on the violet planet below the station with a damaged beacon, cold nights, bioluminescent rain, and no easy exit. To survive, Phoebe has to trust the alien whose system failed her, and Korrin has to learn that protecting her means telling the truth, following her lead, and letting her choose.
The dating agency promised compatibility.
It did not mention crash-landing.
This is a short, standalone alien romance in the Cosmic Connections series, with survival forced proximity, explicit consensual heat, a guaranteed HEA, and no cliffhanger.
Genre: Romance
Phoebe Rourke came to Cosmic Connections to certify the station's human-readiness, not to let its dating algorithm pick her future.
As a Terran safety auditor, Phoebe trusts exits, checklists, and systems that do what they promise. Then the matching program pairs her with Korrin, the station's earnest Vraxian chief systems engineer: seven feet of careful competence, inconvenient warmth, and one extremely expressive tail.
Korrin built the star-viewing capsules to give new matches a safe look at the universe. Taking Phoebe on an inspection ride should prove the system works.
Instead, a tether failure turns their first "date" into an emergency jettison.
Now Phoebe and Korrin are stranded on the violet planet below the station with a damaged beacon, cold nights, bioluminescent rain, and no easy exit. To survive, Phoebe has to trust the alien whose system failed her, and Korrin has to learn that protecting her means telling the truth, following her lead, and letting her choose.
The dating agency promised compatibility.
It did not mention crash-landing.
This is a short, standalone alien romance in the Cosmic Connections series, with survival forced proximity, explicit consensual heat, a guaranteed HEA, and no cliffhanger.
Genre: Romance
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