USA Today bestselling author and BookTok sensation Kimberly Lemming delivers another hilariously titled sci-fi romance that is just as steamy as it is laugh-out-loud bonkers.
Featuring five-pepper spice, a strong female protagonist, and beloved tropes like forced proximity, enemies to lovers, and monster romance, I PUNCHED AN ALIEN AND NOW WE’RE IN COUPLES THERAPY is perfect for fans of Ruby Dixon’s Ice Planet Barbarians series. Mad Max: Fury Road meets How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days meets HBO’S Couples Therapy, the novel follows a woman who, after being beamed up by a spaceship, finds herself betrothed to an alien warlord king and put into a dangerous, gamified couples therapy program with him. Neither of them is happy about it.
Title: I Punched an Alien and Now We're in Couples Therapy
by: Kimberly Lemming
About the Book
A zany and sexy romance about a woman who finds herself stranded on a far-off planet and mated to the warlord alien king, from USA Today bestselling author Kimberly Lemming.
It’s not in Blair’s nature to just give up. Not when she’s beamed up to a spaceship and then dropped on an alien planet. Not even when she’s in the middle of a forest fire surrounded by dinosaurs. And definitely not when she’s captured by an arrogant alien king. If King Osid thinks he can break her, he’s in for a shock. Blair lives by one motto: If you stay ready, you never have to get ready.
But absolutely nothing could have prepared her for finding out that she’s that arrogant King Osid’s mate.
Despite recent hiccups, the alien researchers are determined to get their breeding program back on track. With that in mind, Blair and Osid are bundled off to the research center for what they’re told is couples counseling. As they face a series of increasingly dangerous challenges, it soon becomes clear the research aliens may have confused an episode of The Bachelor with Survivor. Bonding over their common enemy, and shall we say…encouraged by love darts, Blair and Osid let down their walls (and take off their clothes). When they discover that there are—somehow—even more secret plans in the works, another hilarious, steamy, over-the-top adventure is in store.
Excerpt:
Nothing got your blood pumping like the moment just before you struck your first chord onstage. The dimmed lights, the silent anticipation of the crowd, the pounding of your heart as your mind dances on the cusp of that high you can only get from roaring applause.
I steadied my breathing as the announcer made his introduction. Up here I wasn’t just a fry cook. Up here, I wasn’t a forgotten member of my own family. Up here, people listened.
And when the music started to play, the magic of their attention felt like gold in my veins. Unfortunately, the music was far too loud for me to actually listen to them. At the first scream of “SNAKE!” I thought maybe the crowd had come up with a new stage name for one of us. It wasn’t until I heard the telltale hiss against my ear that I looked to my shoulder to find Piper half uncoiled from her hiding place in the skull of my jacket. In the corner of my eye, I could see Porsha throw her drumsticks aside and lunge for me. She wasn’t fast enough. The snake poised to strike and shot out to bite my face.
A blinding white light flashed. The snake’s fangs were frozen mere inches from my eye. I couldn’t move an inch. My body became weightless as I was hurled toward something in the sky.
“Is that a damn spaceship?”
Praise for I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I’m Trapped in a Rom-Com
“A breath of fresh air…Come for the alien threesomes; stay for the wildlife biology.”
—The New York Times
“If the title and cover alone aren’t enough to convince you to dive into this hilarious and very raunchy tale, here’s a bit more about it: It centers around Ph.D. student Dory, who is, yes, abducted by aliens and promptly teams up with a pair of sexy and mysterious extra-terrestrials to find her way back home. The start of any great love story!”
—Marie Claire
“Hilarious, unhinged, heart-wrenching and fantastically heavy on the spice…This one is scorching hot, full of joy and unmissable.”
—Ali Hazelwood, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Bride
About the Author
Kimberly Lemming is a USA Today bestselling author who is on an eternal quest to avoid her calling as a main character. She can be found giving the slip to that new werewolf that just blew into town and refusing to make eye contact with a prince of a far-off land. But when she’s not running from fate, she can be found writing diverse fantasy romance. Or just shoveling chocolate in her maw until she passes out on the couch.
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