Mated & Afraid Series by January Bell

We're fighting for our lives, living for reward challenges, in front of an intergalactic audience—and, oh yeah, apparently the huge winged alien is now my mate. I’ve always been a reality tv junkie, heading up a fantasy league and hosting watch parties at my place. I jumped at the chance to apply to one, and my entire reality tv obsessed girl gang does too, drinking too many margaritas in the process... moreWe're fighting for our lives, living for reward challenges, in front of an intergalactic audience—and, oh yeah, apparently the huge winged alien is now my mate. I’ve always been a reality tv junkie, heading up a fantasy league and hosting watch parties at my place. I jumped at the chance to apply to one, and my entire reality tv obsessed girl gang does too, drinking too many margaritas in the process. We didn’t care that none of us had ever heard of it, or that the premise is a bit too physical for us couch potatoes— there’s no way they’ll pick us, anyway.Except… they do pick us. And the show’s not set on Earth.Nope.We’re starring on the first season of Mated & Afraid, and that paperwork we rushed through had a whole lot of fine print we didn’t read. I’ve been matched with a Draegon alien— and he’s been mated to me, marking me with the poison (yep! Poison!) that means I’m his. We’re dropped into a biosphere, and the game is easy enough to make it to the exit and we win.That is, until the supposedly uninhabited moon we're on turns out to not be uninhabited at all— and the artificial intelligence we've awoken? It has a whole different idea of fun and games. less

I'm stuck with a pushy alien dragon until we win or lose a reality survival show— and he's decided I'm his mate.As if being put on an alien reality show and mated to an alpha dragon wasn't bad enough, now an unhinged AI has taken over the game. The challenges only get worse, the rewards all seem out of reach, and worst of all?I'm in heat, and the only cure is mating permanently with my huge dragon alien partner... moreI'm stuck with a pushy alien dragon until we win or lose a reality survival show— and he's decided I'm his mate.As if being put on an alien reality show and mated to an alpha dragon wasn't bad enough, now an unhinged AI has taken over the game. The challenges only get worse, the rewards all seem out of reach, and worst of all?I'm in heat, and the only cure is mating permanently with my huge dragon alien partner. We're too stubborn, too grumpy, and too much alike to ever work as a couple, and I'm starting to doubt we'll ever get off this game show from hell.But the stupid AI running things thinks we're perfect for each other. Every time it throws us into a new awful situation, the more I think it's either trying to kill us— or it might just be right. Maybe all that tension between me and my alien is something more than hate. Either way, I'm determined to survive. less