Cosmos Resort and Dating Agency introduces voluntary humans to aliens as prospective mates. The keyword is voluntary. The humans who want nothing to do with aliens have their memories wiped and are sent to a regular Earth resort. But some don’t make it. Instead, they are sold on the galaxy’s black market. The Intergalactic Intelligence Agency sends one of their best agents to put a stop to this … stop to this slave trade.
Agent Hack trails the alien slavers from the resort to a cruise ship full of humans who had chosen to have their memories wiped. Just as Hack is closing in, he’s struck by lightning, short-circuiting his shapeshifting nanobots and cutting him off from his team. In an effort to hide, he uses the last of his strength to make himself look human before passing out in the closest bed.
Aspiring ocean videographer, Jeannie Havers has a hot lead on a rare shark spotting. She’d love for them to star in her latest documentary but she’s on a tight budget. With her last few dollars, she books a cheap cruise to an unknown singles resort near the sighting. She has five days to locate and film the sharks. That is until she wakes up with the worst hangover ever next to hottest man in the world. And he claims they are soulmates.
Hack’s new face makes him weirdly irresistible to the local human women and impossible to go unnoticed by the slavers, but he’s stuck like this until his nanobots recover. Worse, his soulmate is one of the humans who had chosen to have her memories wiped because she didn’t want to be mated to an alien. Could he spend the rest of his life pretending to be human?
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Hack is on a mission for the Intergalactic Intelligence Agency with his team to stop human abductions as they are then sold as slaves. He was able to track the slave traders from the Cosmos Resort and Dating Agency, an alien singles vacation spot, to a cruise ship. The resort introduces voluntary humans to aliens as prospective mates. Any human on the cruise ship had chosen to have their memories wiped because they wanted nothing to do with aliens. Just as Hack is closing in on the slavers, he’s struck by lightning, short-circuiting his shapeshifting nanobots and cutting him off from his team. In an effort to hide, he uses the last of his strength to make himself look human before passing out in the closest bed. Jeannie Havers has a hot lead on a rare shark spotting and is determined to film it so she can shine a spotlight on sharks declining numbers and their importance to the ecosystem. her latest documentary that shone a spotlight on sharks declining numbers and their importance to the ecosystem. With her last few dollars, she books a cheap cruise to a singles resort near the sighting. She has seven days to find them. That is until she wakes up with the worst hangover ever next to the hottest man in the world. And he claims they are soulmates. Hack’s new face makes him weirdly irresistible to the local human women and impossible to go unnoticed by the slavers, but he’s stuck like this until his nanobots recover. Worse, his soulmate is one of the humans who had chosen to have her memories wiped because she didn’t want to be mated to an alien. Could he spend the rest of his life pretending to be human?
This was a sweet story telling us how Heck met Jeannie and how they worked together to further the same of breaking the case of the slave traders abducting women from Earth. It was nice to experience an alien that was helpless and the inventive ways that he managed to handle the situation while furthering the investigation. I loved the way the relationship between Hack and Jeannie developed. Well written and easy to read and understand. Does contain some sexual content.
I am loving this Mail Order Bride World…
This is the second story in this wickedly funny dating agency world.
Hack we met in book one, he is the brainy nerd of the bunch? Well he will need all his nerdiness to get him through his battle ahead.
Although Hack isn’t looking for anything but the human traffickers he has someone looking at him. And she is lying beside him.
Jeannie went on a trip to find a rare shark but she hooks something much sexier.
This story is sexy, funny and we get action… Loved it !!
This was a delightfully entertaining paranormal sci-fi suspense tale!
This story begins with Hack, shortly after we left him at the end Trace (the proceeding volume in this series). There is an awful lot of back-story dispensed in the first part of chapter one, but all of it is well-handled; such that I believe anyone just picking up this novel would be able to follow along. Of course, having read the prior story gives a lot more insight not only into the current situation, but into the main players as well.
Hack is the main male protagonist here. As his name suggests, he has an affinity with technology, including the highly advanced nanobots that his team uses to not only change their appearance as necessary for disguise, but to assist in all manner of spy matters. Unfortunately, Hack’s nanos are mostly obliterated by a lightning strike, and so he is at a distinct disadvantage in trying to perform his duties without full use of his normal skill set. Then there’s the matter of him finding his fated mate and being more than a little distracted by her presence.
Jeannie works as a nature documentary film crew, and is in fact at the resort under somewhat false pretenses and on quasi-assignment. She isn’t looking for a man, but rather a particular type of shark that she is hoping to get footage of for a future endeavor. Jeannie actually feels an immediate affinity to Hack, but doesn’t recognize their soulmate bond for what it is, having had no experience with such things in the past.
There are fewer peripherary characters in this episode, and only short encounters with the ones who do make an appearance. Still, it is fun to see (or at least hear) some old friends from the prior volume, even in limited quantities.
Once again, the main feel of the book is upbeat and happy, much as you would imagine things to be at a lovely island resort. But there definitely are machinations in the works by the slave traders, and there is a fair amount of menace promoted by them.
Like most middle books of any trilogy, this one advanced things with the main story arch only minimally, mostly serving as a place keeper until – hopefully! – things can be resolved in the final book. Which, of course, will be centered on Crypto, who as of the end of this book is missing in action, so it should be quite the finale!
I REALLY like this series!
Okay, I REALLY liked this book, in particular. It deals with “fated mates,” which is my FAVORITE. When Hack met Jeannie, he just KNEW she was destined to be his.
She, of course, had no idea. Lol! Imagine the interesting situations that conjured.
I liked Jeannie because yes, she was an independent woman and yes, she took care of herself, yadda yadda yadda, but Annie worded something differently, which gave me a new way to think of things; Jeannie’s assertiveness towards others where Hack was concerned (no spoilers) was protective. She was sticking up for him when he otherwise couldn’t. I always read about the heroes trying to be protective of the heroines, never really the other way around. I really liked that show of strength.
As usual, lots of action, mystery and humor (Hack’s outfit in the beginning is a RIOT!), and I can’t wait to read more!!!
(I was given this book in consideration of my honest thoughts)
Loved book 1 and l love book 2 as well.
Fun and at times had me giggling, this book was a gift that l thoroughly enjoyed and can recommended for a couple of relaxing hours in fantasy land.
We again meet Hack, an alien who is attempting to help save trafficked humans on Earth, with Annie Nicholas’ book 2 in her Cosmos Alien Mail Order Brides-Intergalactic Dating Agency series.
With knowledge of all things technical, Hack finds himself in a situation he has not experienced before, when he chances upon his mate.
This is a fun and sexy read that highlights just how similar relationships are, no matter the planet!