Slavery, or mate to an Alien Commander? Which would you choose? Paris had lost her parents at a young age and instead of going into the foster system, she ended up on the streets. Sure, life was tough for a 17-year-old girl with no one to turn to, but she made her way on the streets of Los Angeles for years. That is, until one day when she was no longer on the streets, or even on Earth Commander … streets, or even on Earth
Commander Venay of the V’Zenian Empire was a man on a mission. It was his responsibility to ensure a good lot of human slaves made it back to his planet each year. But this time it was different, he saw her across a field and knew he had to have her, at all costs.
The choice was simple, Paris could be a slave on the V’Zenian homeworld, or she could become Venay’s mate and provide him with the offspring his people so desperately needed! Until the V’Zenian’s most venomous rival, the Zateelians, attacked Venay’s ship and forced them to crash land on a distant planet. Paris had a new choice to make: save herself or help Venay exterminate aliens who have a sinister plan for the humans.
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Come and join J.L. Hendricks on her next voyage! Worlds Away is the first in a Sci-Fi Romantic/Adventure trilogy where aliens abduct women for more than just slavery, they abduct them to continue their own race! If you like Ruby Lionsdrake, then you will enjoy Worlds Away! This is a mostly clean romance with an HEA in each book. If it were a movie, it would be PG-13.
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A fantastic story with wonderful and strong characters…
Aliens abducting humans as mate or slave…
Action and romance for a book that will kept you reading until the end.
I’m looking forward to reading the next book.
I like how the characters became more than slaves and made love matches with the aliens.
Good story with interesting characters- — especially Paris, the heroine. She and a group of other humans are abducted by alien-human hybrid warriors. If they do not find a mate among the warriors, they will be slaves. Written for juveniles/young adults and CLEAN!
Paris became an orphan at a young age and ended up on the Los Angeles streets and not in the foster system. She was tough and doing well when one day she was spirited out of a field by aliens. Venay is a Commander in the V’Zenian Empire and his job is to abduct humans to become slaves or mates for the males of his species. When he saw Paris across the field he knew he just had to have her. So Paris has a complicated choice to make – become a slave or Venay’s mate. Then a rival alien species cause their spaceship to crash on a planet and she has a new decision – think only of saving herself or work with Venay to save everyone from their spaceship by killing all the rival aliens who would treat the humans far worse.
What can I say – I LOVED this story. It had lots of emotions from both the humans and the V’Zenians who were not used to showing and expressing them. It was enjoyable to experience the slow realisation by Paris that they really were mates and she could fight it all the way but it was going to end the same way. The V’Zenians was quite enchanting the way they tried to see the humans as much more than slaves and could relate and converse with them as colleagues and friends as they realised that the humans had skills that made them more useful than lowly slaves. Now I have to get the next book in the series so I can find out what happens next.
Paris gets abducted by an gorgeous alien who wants her to be his mate; she has the choice of agreeing or becoming a slave. She knew she was going to try and educate the V’Zenians that slavery was wrong, she also knew that she was going to to try and escape back to Earth as soon as possible; what she didn’t bargain on, was falling in love with Venay. When their ship gets attacked by the Zateelians, an insectoid race who have even more sinister motives for wanting to capture the humans, life gets very hectic for Paris. This is a good, clean romance with no erotic content so it is very suitable for young adults.
I got this book as an ARC and am hereby leaving my honest review.
I loved the characters and the storyline. Tremendous story. Ms. Hendricks kept me entertained. I couldn’t stop reading.