The Sterling Acquisition (Manufactured Mates #1)
Gale Ian Tate
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
4.75
· Steam/Spice level: 4 of 5
Explicit open door [?]
· 2 ratings · 484 pages · Published: 28 Aug 2025
In the Incorporated States of New America, everything has a price—including Dante Ashford's twenty-year career as Gensyn Corporation's most reliable operative. His latest assignment promises standard corporate espionage: infiltrate Sterling-Vance Industries, steal their forced bonding technology, extract before anyone notices the missing patents or bodies.
Enter Leo James, SVI's answer to the question "what if we gave someone a PhD in missing the point?" His idea of Omega management involves public street wrestling and the kind of psychological incompetence that makes his neighbors place bets on his daily humiliation.
His contracted Omega, Orion, has responded by weaponizing domestic compliance into an art form that's part rebellion, part seduction, and entirely wasted on someone who thinks dominance means hitting harder. He's brilliant, gorgeous, completely feral, and about to become the first human guinea pig for technology that will reprogram his mind while making him send thank-you cards afterward.
Dante's mission parameters definitely didn't include developing an obsession with saving someone who fights like a wildcat and kisses like he's trying to start wars. But watching Leo fail at breaking someone who was clearly made to be claimed properly is like witnessing corporate negligence on a personal level.
Now Dante's racing against experimental timelines, fighting his own conditioning, and learning that some bonds can't be manufactured in a lab—they have to be earned one stolen moment, heated argument, and desperate encounter at a time.
Some people are worth committing corporate treason for. Even if they bite.
Especially if they bite.
This is a non-shifter A/B/O Omegaverse novel with no MPreg and a guaranteed HEA.
Content Warnings: This book contains explicit sexual content, dubious consent scenarios, physical violence, captivity, human trafficking, medical experimentation, corporate abuse, surveillance, and Alpha/Beta/Omega dynamics with significant power imbalances. Intended for mature readers.
Sponsored links
Tagged as:
- science fiction 2
- gay romance 2
- dystopian 2
- queer romance 1
- contemporary 1
- omegaverse 1
- class difference 1
- height difference 1
- alpha male 1
- working class hero 1
- secret relationship 1
- anal sex 1
- creative anatomy 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- graphic violence 1
- human trafficking 1
- abuse 1
- abuse between mcs 1
- non-consent between mcs 1
- Format
- male pov 1
- dual pov 1
- third person pov 1
romance tags
The 'Manufactured Mates' series
4.75 · 2 ratings
contemporary · graphic-violence · science fiction · human-trafficking · dystopian · queer · omegaverse · m-m · height-difference · alpha male · length-long · dual-pov · explicit-open-door · third-person-pov · abuse-mc · working class hero · rape-mc · abuse · secret-relationship · anal sex
Manufactured Mates reading order and complete book list ❯
Report duplicate books, missing or wrong information
Check out thebooknaut.com for more science fiction books or comics that might match your interests or browse new sci-fi releases
- Queer science fiction books with gay, lesbian, non-binary and trans protagonists
- Sci-fi tropes such as hard sci-fi,exploration, invasions and post-apocalyptic societies
- Follow badass main characters, anti-heroes, loners & outcasts and scoundrels and rogues on their epic adventures