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I Married a Minotaur
- Prime Mating Agency
- By: Regine Abel
- Narrated by: Daryl Mayfield
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Rihanna is condemned to a 20-year sentence on the most savage prison planet in the sector for a crime she didn’t commit. On the day of her transfer, she’s offered a deal to commute her sentence: an arranged marriage with a grumpy orc-minotaur, who has muscles for days, devilish red eyes, and an insufferably smart mouth. Despite his species’ reputation for being violent brutes, Rihanna soon finds herself drawn to the gentle giant that lurks beneath his terrifying appearance.
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lots of new ideas. marvellous.
- By Avidchic reader on 26-05-2024
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I Married a Minotaur
- Prime Mating Agency
- Narrated by: Daryl Mayfield
- Series: Prime Mating Agency, Book 5
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 29-07-2022
- Language: English
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Wrong Bed, Right Alien
- Luxx Aliens on Earth, Book 1
- By: Liz Paffel
- Narrated by: Raven Hawkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Kimber McLeedy's actual assignment: Go to a remote village in Ireland to interview the son of a famous explorer about an environmental program he's spearheading. What Kimber really wants to do: Find out what the heck is going on in Ireland as reports of strange sightings and atmospheric anomalies roll in.
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Wrong Bed, Right Alien
- Luxx Aliens on Earth, Book 1
- Narrated by: Raven Hawkins
- Series: Luxx Aliens on Earth, Book 1
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 28-11-2023
- Language: English
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Barbarian’s Beloved
- Ice Planet Barbarians, Book 18
- By: Ruby Dixon
- Narrated by: Hollie Jackson, Mason Lloyd
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance29
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Story29
My tribesmates don't understand her. The other humans think she's weak. But no one knows my mate like I do. They don't see her gentle heart or her brave spirit. I know why she struggles. I know how strong she is. And I know I'll do anything to make her smile. But can I convince her that she can be happy in this strange new world with me?
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***Anxiety is a silent disease***
- By Imee-B on 06-01-2020
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Barbarian’s Beloved
- Ice Planet Barbarians, Book 18
- Narrated by: Hollie Jackson, Mason Lloyd
- Series: Ice Planet Barbarians, Book 16
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 15-10-2019
- Language: English
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Marriage Raffle Boxset Part 2 Books 4-5: A Reverse Harem Romance Series
- By: Stasia Black
- Narrated by: Parker Douglas, Brian Meslar, Kelsey-Ann O'Dowd
- Length: 19 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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In the New Republic, every woman must marry five men. It’s the law. Welcome to the apocalypse. Part Two, Books Four to Five. Look for Part One for the first three books in the series. Includes Theirs to Defy and Theirs to Ransom.
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Marriage Raffle Boxset Part 2 Books 4-5: A Reverse Harem Romance Series
- Narrated by: Parker Douglas, Brian Meslar, Kelsey-Ann O'Dowd
- Series: Marriage Raffle, Book 4-5
- Length: 19 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 12-07-2021
- Language: English
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Alien Warlord's Claim
- Fated Mates of the Xaathian Barbarians, Book 1
- By: Presley Hall
- Narrated by: Blair Thatcher, C.J. Grey
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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When I caught my fiancé cheating on me with my best friend right before our wedding, I thought my day couldn’t get any worse. I was wrong. It got a lot worse. Like, alien abduction worse. Now I’m being held captive by a tribe of fierce alien warriors with striped skin, piercings, and horns. But when the leader of an opposing tribe comes to their village for peace talks one day, he takes one look at me and everything changes.
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Alien Warlord's Claim
- Fated Mates of the Xaathian Barbarians, Book 1
- Narrated by: Blair Thatcher, C.J. Grey
- Series: Fated Mates of the Xaathian Barbarians Series, Book 1
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 07-02-2023
- Language: English
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10 Things Aliens Hate About You
- Alienn, Arkansas, Book 4
- By: Fiona Roarke
- Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Valvoline Ethyl Grey, the youngest sibling and only daughter in the Grey clan, knows the rules when it comes to alpha-human relationships - it’s fine to have a little fun, just don’t get too attached, unless you want a one-way ticket back to a homeworld that’s never been home. Skeeter Bite Sheriff Wyatt Campbell is as easygoing as they come, but even he has his limits. At first, he thought Vee wanted to keep their romance under wraps to protect him from a butt-kicking from one - or all - of her six brawny older brothers.
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10 Things Aliens Hate About You
- Alienn, Arkansas, Book 4
- Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
- Series: Alienn, Arkansas, Book 4
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 24-04-2020
- Language: English
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Tamed by an Alien Warlord
- Fated Mates of the Ferlaern Warriors, Book 2
- By: Ava Ross
- Narrated by: Stephen Dexter, Felicity Munroe
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Durran: The Earthling females are settling into our clan, finding new homes high in the forest's canopy. Matches are being made, but not for me. Scarred as I am, none will ever glance my way. But one Earthling... Rayne's sweet and funny, and I want to scoop her up in my arms and kiss her until she moans my name. To protect my heart, I'll keep busy with my investigation into a new threat to our clan. Someone's harming our trees, and I need to stop them before our way of life is destroyed.
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Thoroughly enjoyed it
- By Liv Jones on 30-09-2023
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Tamed by an Alien Warlord
- Fated Mates of the Ferlaern Warriors, Book 2
- Narrated by: Stephen Dexter, Felicity Munroe
- Series: Fated Mates of the Ferlaern Warriors, Book 2
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 22-11-2022
- Language: English
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Taken by the Alien Warrior
- Warriors of Agron, Book 1
- By: Hope Hart
- Narrated by: Dana Dae
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance22
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Story22
The aliens who abducted me made a mistake. The Grivath have sold us on Gule - a planet known for dealing in human flesh. The women who are being held captive with me are in high demand and they all look like models. Me? I’m 5'2 shy, curvy, and a kindergarten teacher. Maybe they really meant to take my pageant queen sister? Our ship has crashed and half of the women are missing. Insert the tall, sexy warrior aliens, who saved us. Things are looking up, except that one of them is eyeing me like a snack, and not in a cannibalistic way - if you catch my drift.
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Engaging
- By Kindle Customer on 15-03-2022
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Taken by the Alien Warrior
- Warriors of Agron, Book 1
- Narrated by: Dana Dae
- Series: Warriors of Agron, Book 1
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 17-04-2020
- Language: English
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Married to the Alien Cowboy
- Cowboy Colony Mail-Order Brides, Book 1
- By: Ursa Dax
- Narrated by: Walker Williams, Aletha George
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
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In debt and on the run from a crime lord whose nose I may or may not have broken, I take the first ticket off-world that comes my way. The only catch? I have to marry an alien cowboy. My plan is simple enough. Shack up with my groom Silar and convince him to keep me during the first month of our marriage. As long as he doesn't decide to send me packing after the thirty-day trial period, I'll be safe.
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Married to the Alien Cowboy
- Cowboy Colony Mail-Order Brides, Book 1
- Narrated by: Walker Williams, Aletha George
- Series: Cowboy Colony Mail-Order Brides, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 20-01-2026
- Language: English
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Taken by the Cyborg
- The Interstellar Brides® Program: The Colony Series, Book 10
- By: Grace Goodwin
- Narrated by: Stefanie Kay, Tor Thom
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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There are no rules, and to the victor go the spoils, namely one feisty human female who claims it’s all a big mistake. A misunderstanding. What she should’ve said to the brutal warrior who nabbed her was that he had mistakenly abducted the wrong girl entirely. Oh, wait. She did. Taken by one cyborg. Claimed by another. Both powerful beasts believe she is their mate. Thrown over the victor’s shoulder and carted off, Lavender finds herself trapped on another world, another planet, in another star system.
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Taken by the Cyborg
- The Interstellar Brides® Program: The Colony Series, Book 10
- Narrated by: Stefanie Kay, Tor Thom
- Series: The Interstellar Brides® Program: The Colony Series, Book 10
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 28-10-2025
- Language: English
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These Silent Stars
- A Dark MM Sci-Fi College Enemies to Lovers Romance (The Devils of Vitality)
- By: Chani Lynn Feener
- Narrated by: Wesley Lynch
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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The Devils of Vitality always spot a liar. Rin Varun’s got something to hide. That’s a lie. He’s got several things. Traveling to a different galaxy was meant to make his life less complicated, but a year in on this new planet and he’s still fighting off his demons. There’s no better place to learn how to keep skeletons buried than the Academy, where they teach their cadets how to uncover them, and Rin is determined to graduate in order to ensure those demons stay hidden.
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Narrator lets this down
- By Annie on 12-11-2024
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These Silent Stars
- A Dark MM Sci-Fi College Enemies to Lovers Romance (The Devils of Vitality)
- Narrated by: Wesley Lynch
- Series: The Devils of Vitality, Book 2
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 30-08-2024
- Language: English
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A Future for Zharor
- A Sci Fi Alien Romance (Tallean Mercenaries, Book 7)
- By: Lynnea Lee
- Narrated by: Troy Duran
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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The alien captain rescuing me from the Dominion breeding facility is nothing like the other Tallean males I’ve met. He’s wild, untamed, and hot as sin. The fierce warrior sets my body on fire. He stalks right up to me and tells me I’m his. And bonus—he knows my sister! Eager to celebrate my newfound freedom, I jump on tall, dark, and dangerous for a wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am the first chance I get. He is an alien and can’t knock me up. It’s a win-win all around. What could possibly go wrong?
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A Future for Zharor
- A Sci Fi Alien Romance (Tallean Mercenaries, Book 7)
- Narrated by: Troy Duran
- Series: Tallean Mercenaries, Book 7
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 18-12-2025
- Language: English
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Jinxed
- By: Torri Heat
- Narrated by: James Anderson Foster, Heather Stonewell
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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When Savannah Miles comes into a sum of money, she decides to follow her lifelong dream and open her own thrift shop. The sweet-looking house in the woods seems like the perfect place. Except the house is filled with mystery—and three handsome men who have been stuck inside for decades. Felix, the original owner of the house, trapped for over a century. Luther, the 40-something postman whose search for the meaning of life led him to be stuck in the house since the 70s. And Theo, whose string of bad luck left him in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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performance was great
- By JKE20_20 JasminEreads on 14-06-2024
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Jinxed
- Narrated by: James Anderson Foster, Heather Stonewell
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 02-05-2023
- Language: English
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Sky Song
- Rix Universe, Book 2
- By: Lydia Hope
- Narrated by: Marnye Young
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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After a dismal upbringing on decaying, alien-infested Earth, Emmaline "Cricket" Beatty now lives a charmed life on humanity's new and improved home planet Meeus. The constant vulnerability of the before has given way to the ironclad security of the present. Everything is pretty, organized, predictable. There are no flaws in this new world. When the hospital where Cricket works hosts an intergalactic symposium, she is called upon to translate for the alien guests. She is intrigued to see that a secretive Rix nation has sent a delegate.
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Sky Song
- Rix Universe, Book 2
- Narrated by: Marnye Young
- Series: Rix Universe, Book 2
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 05-09-2023
- Language: English
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Eclipse the Moon
- A Novel
- By: Jessie Mihalik
- Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance17
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Acclaimed author Jessie Mihalik returns with an exciting new novel about a rainbow-haired female bounty hunter tasked with preventing an interstellar war. Kee Ildez has been many things: hacker, soldier, bounty hunter. She never expected to be a hero, but when a shadowy group of traitors starts...
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Eclipse the Moon
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
- Series: Hunt the Stars, Book 2, Starlight’s Shadow, Book 2
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 12-07-2022
- Language: English
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Emperor
- Galactic Kings, Book 2
- By: Anna Hackett
- Narrated by: Vivienne Leheny, Stephen Dexter
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance18
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Waking on an alien world, wracked by pain, Dr. Poppy Ellison is confused and adrift…until his voice calls to her in the darkness. The big, wild, enthralling man reveals that she’s been infected and is turning into an alien shape-shifter. Poppy has always been smart, practical, and boring, but with her entire life turned upside down, there is no one she can trust…except for this alien wolf. Emperor Brodin Damar Sarkany is king of Damar and its shape-shifters. He can’t afford the distraction of a small, tantalizing woman from Earth.
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Good story
- By Amazon Customer on 23-05-2024
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Emperor
- Galactic Kings, Book 2
- Narrated by: Vivienne Leheny, Stephen Dexter
- Series: Galactic Kings, Book 2
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 29-04-2022
- Language: English
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The Gorison Traveler Incident
- Veslor Mates, Book 1
- By: Laurann Dohner
- Narrated by: Suzanne T. Fortin
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance15
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Vivian is a cultural specialist on the United Earth fleet ship Gorison Traveler. It’s the perfect job for someone who wants to learn everything about aliens. The only problem? The commander won’t let her anywhere near the visiting Ke’ters aboard the ship. The only way she gets a peek at the lizard-like race is when her brother opens a live camera feed during a meeting—a meeting that turns tragic when the Ke’ters attack the crew. Rushing from her quarters to get help from a control center, Vivian finds the station abandoned. It’s all on her to try to rescue the crew.
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Dreary
- By MadHatter on 21-09-2025
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The Gorison Traveler Incident
- Veslor Mates, Book 1
- Narrated by: Suzanne T. Fortin
- Series: Veslor Mates, Book 1
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 01-07-2022
- Language: English
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In the Corsair’s Bed
- Corsairs Series, Book 2
- By: Ruby Dixon
- Narrated by: Hollie Jackson, Mason Lloyd
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance22
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As a pirate, I tend to hang out with unsavory outcasts at the edges of the known universe. I'm used to running into thieves, assassins, and fugitives. It shouldn't surprise me to see a forbidden human female for sale in the tunnels of the space station, but I hate it. When I see she's near death, I have to act. I buy her. She spits in my face. It's love at first sight. At least, it's love at first sight on my end. I know it can never be, though, because I'm an ugly beast of an alien to her. The enemy.
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short n sweet
- By mel on 18-05-2020
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In the Corsair’s Bed
- Corsairs Series, Book 2
- Narrated by: Hollie Jackson, Mason Lloyd
- Series: Corsairs, Book 2
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 27-11-2018
- Language: English
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Releasing Maladek
- A Clecanian Series Novella (Clecanian Series, Book 6.5)
- By: Victoria Aveline
- Narrated by: Stephen Dexter
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance12
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Katie is content with her post-alien-abduction life. Not only has she found work as a royal attendant, but her current assignment on a galaxy cruise is enjoyable, too . . . until the ship is brought down by a malevolent species. Now she must rescue her friends and escape a hostile planet—all by herself. Then she crosses paths with a sexy stranger who changes everything . . .
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Releasing Malade k
- By Psalm on 01-08-2024
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Releasing Maladek
- A Clecanian Series Novella (Clecanian Series, Book 6.5)
- Narrated by: Stephen Dexter
- Series: Clecanian
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 26-03-2024
- Language: English
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So I Married an Alien
- Mail-Order Alien Grooms, Book 1
- By: Lyonne Riley
- Narrated by: Mila Ridha, Christopher Andrews
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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What's a girl to do when her cat dies and a plague wipes out most of the male population? Why, she marries an alien, of course! Amara is a party girl with a boring day job, on the search for meaning in her life. When she applies to the Galactic Matching Program looking for an alien husband, she's paired with Roth'kar, a four-armed Karthinian. Four arms may present problems when it comes to buying clothes, but Amara's excited to find out what else her new husband can do with them.
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So I Married an Alien
- Mail-Order Alien Grooms, Book 1
- Narrated by: Mila Ridha, Christopher Andrews
- Series: Mail-Order Alien Grooms, Book 1
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 13-01-2026
- Language: English
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