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Alechia Dow

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Premise labels used: mind-paired lovers, forced proximity, fleeing injustice, wrongly accused, royal succession, forbidden romance, class divide, assassination fallout, escape narrative, telepathic bond

Setting labels used: space opera, intergalactic kingdom, alien worlds, Earth, Florida, futuristic society, queernormative world, colonial empire

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Taken to Heimo

Elizabeth Stephens · 2021 · Xiveri Mates

A prejudiced alien bodyguard and his devout human charge are forced to face danger, faith, and desire as mates.

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Premise labels: fated mates · enemy lovers · bodyguard bond · cross-species romance · prejudice conflict · protective guardian · religious conflict · forced cohabitation · pirate pursuit · dangerous secrets

Setting labels: space opera · alien worlds · human colony · off-world colony · futuristic interspecies society · intergalactic travel

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Distance: 0.1450

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Winter's Orbit

Everina Maxwell · 2021 · Winter's Orbit

An arranged political marriage in space forces two mismatched men to solve a murder and stop a war while falling in love.

Why this is here

Premise labels: arranged marriage · political marriage · marriage of convenience · murder investigation · interplanetary tension · treaty crisis · slow burn romance · forced proximity · political alliance · miscommunication

Setting labels: space opera · galactic empire · interplanetary politics · planetary system · royal court · future setting · queernormative world · colonized planetary system · space stations · off-world cultures

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1566

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Shadow

Alana Khan · 2019 · Galaxy Gladiators

A traumatized captive and a surly alien gladiator clash, heal, and fall into a steamy redemption romance.

Why this is here

Premise labels: broken souls · forced proximity · redemption romance · captivity escape · rescued captive · protective pairing · opposites attract · slow thaw · damaged lovers · healing romance

Setting labels: space opera · alien world · gladiator arena · slave auction · starship · post-slavery · interplanetary

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1725

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Desire in His Blood

Zoey Draven · 2022 · Brides of the Kylorr

A debt-ridden human woman marries a fearsome alien lord for survival, only to discover desire, revenge, and fate entwined.

Why this is here

Premise labels: marriage bargain · revenge marriage · blood mate · family debt · forced proximity · fated mates · alien husband · dangerous bridegroom

Setting labels: space colony · foreign planet · intergalactic setting · multi-species society · futuristic world · space opera · alien homeworld · planetary politics

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1736

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Shards of Honour

Lois McMaster Bujold · 2003 · Vorkosigan Saga (Publication Order)

A survey captain and a military commander from rival worlds must survive together, then navigate war and forbidden love.

Why this is here

Premise labels: survival partnership · enemy-to-lovers · captor captive · interplanetary conflict · political divide · cultural clash · mutual respect · wartime romance · marooned together

Setting labels: space opera setting · alien planet · interplanetary war · future colony worlds · wormhole network · militarized society · progressive colony · hostile wilderness · military empire · space travel

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1758

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Mated on Hades

Golden Angel · 2018 · Celestial Mates: Romancing the Galaxy…

A hacker on the run and a space captain avoiding commitment are paired by an alien dating agency—against both their plans.

Why this is here

Premise labels: mating agency · forced proximity · fake match · runaway heroine · reluctant mate · arranged pairing · fated mates · space travel · alien-human romance · hiding from danger

Setting labels: space opera · interstellar travel · multiple planets · alien civilization · futuristic setting · planetary romance · spaceship setting · other worlds · fictional planet

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1775

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Kissing Steel

Laurann Dohner · 2010 · Cyborg Seduction

A salvage mission gone wrong leaves a human woman claiming the biggest cyborg to survive—and seduce her way to freedom.

Why this is here

Premise labels: captivity romance · forced proximity · claimed mate · seduction contest · possession romance · human-cyborg romance · rescued captive · space salvage

Setting labels: space opera · intergalactic · spaceship · cyborg world · planet Garden · off-world · future · alien society

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1785

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Training His Human

Renee Rose · 2017 · Zandian Masters

An older human slave and an alien warrior are forced into a punishment/training bond that sparks dangerous desire.

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Premise labels: power exchange · training narrative · discipline romance · alien-human pairing · forbidden attraction · second chance love · obligation romance · master-slave bond

Setting labels: alien world · spacefaring setting · war-torn world · post-invasion · futuristic society · slave society · interspecies setting · series world

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Distance: 0.1844

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Seminal

C.M. Stunich · 2023 · For the Love of Aliens

An abducted human juggles alien mates, royal obligations, and a dangerous bond that could cost her everything.

Why this is here

Premise labels: alien abduction · fated mates · forced marriage · reverse harem · captivity romance · royal romance · space politics · mate bond · saving a lover

Setting labels: outer space · spaceship · sentient ship · alien planet · royal court · intergalactic society · alien civilization · captive setting

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Distance: 0.1874

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Kestrel

Adrienne Lothy · 2024 · Starhawk

A retired, disabled bounty hunter hunts a galaxy-famous assassin and uncovers corruption, secrets, and unexpected love.

Why this is here

Premise labels: bounty hunter · assassin target · cat and mouse · corrupt system · forced alliance · forbidden attraction · intergalactic conspiracy · moral grayness

Setting labels: space opera · intergalactic · multiple worlds · alien species · deep space · galactic politics · futuristic society

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1893

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Claimed by the Cyborgs

Grace Goodwin · 2021 · Interstellar Brides: The Colony

A prison-born Earth woman is matched to two battered alien warriors whose bond, pain, and desire may save or doom them.

Why this is here

Premise labels: fated mates · interstellar matching · prisoner bride · damaged heroes · throuple romance · rescuer romance · forbidden claim · mate bond · healing romance · survival romance

Setting labels: outer space · intergalactic · alien world · The Colony · Earth · prison · space colony · war zone · sci-fi future · Coalition

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1893

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Ocean's Echo

Everina Maxwell · 2022 · Winter's Orbit

A telepath and a mind-controller fake a bond to survive military coercion, then uncover a power struggle that could ignite war.

Why this is here

Premise labels: telepathic bond · fake bond · forced conscription · mind control · escape plan · political intrigue · galactic conflict

Setting labels: spacefaring future · same universe as Winter's Orbit · new sector of galaxy · planetary society · chaotic space · military setting · queernorm world

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1901

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