Manufactured Mates Series by Gale Ian Tate

He came to steal a patent. He stole a person instead. 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... moreHe came to steal a patent. He stole a person instead. 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. less

He was seeking enlightenment. He found a Berserker with freckles instead. Welcome to the Incorporated States of New America, where spiritual growth comes with a service agreement and Cass represents the absolute worst return on investment in corporate missionary history. His performance metrics are genuinely zero successful conversions, negative territorial expansion, and a concerning tendency to get stabbed by his own recruitment targets... moreHe was seeking enlightenment. He found a Berserker with freckles instead. Welcome to the Incorporated States of New America, where spiritual growth comes with a service agreement and Cass represents the absolute worst return on investment in corporate missionary history. His performance metrics are genuinely zero successful conversions, negative territorial expansion, and a concerning tendency to get stabbed by his own recruitment targets. Elysian Dynamics has given him two weeks to prove he's not completely hopeless before subjecting him to their "enhanced development program"—a process that definitely voids the warranty on your personality. Enter a corporately modified Berserker whose idea of conflict resolution involves enhanced violence and whose emotional support animal is apparently his own barely controlled rage. He smells like strawberries and cream, which violates several known laws of biology, and keeps interfering with Cass's recruitment efforts by preventing people from murdering him. The problem? Every time Cass does something adorably stupid—which is constantly—Riot's carefully managed suppressants stage a full rebellion. Watching someone this genuinely kind blame himself for a system designed to exploit him triggers every possessive instinct his corporate programmers tried to bury. Together, they're about to discover that some corporate policies are worse than death, some rescue missions require more than good intentions, and some bonds form despite absolutely every rational objection. Because apparently, the heart wants what it wants, even when what it wants makes absolutely no sense. This is a non-shifter A/B/O Omegaverse novel with no MPreg and a guaranteed HEA. Content This book contains explicit sexual content, torture, conversion therapy, corporate abuse, human trafficking, chase/capture dynamics, physical violence, and Alpha/Beta/Omega dynamics with power imbalances. Intended for mature readers (18+). less