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. 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 un