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Celestial Mates

Kit Tunstall, Miranda Martin, Zara Zenia, Celia Kyle, Kate Rudolph, Leslie Chase, Luna Hunter, Nancey Cummings, Lisa Lace & Scarlett Grove · 6 series · 23 novels · 7 novellas · 1 novelette · 2016–2019

Somewhere past the last charted colony, an agency keeps a very old promise: no one has to be alone. Fill out the form honestly — the loneliness, the longing, the thing you would never say aloud — and Celestial Mates finds the one being in the galaxy built to answer it. He is rarely human. He may be a blue-skinned prince, a scarred warrior, a cyborg relearning how to feel, or something with a tail and claws and a heart that has waited lifetimes for yours. This is a shared galaxy written by many hands. Each author claims a species and a world and tells its own courtships beneath the single banner of the agency: Zara Zenia's blue royals in Royally Blue, Kit Tunstall's Alva, the cyborgs of Cybernetic Hearts, and worlds like Vialea and Tail and Claw, with Miranda Martin, Celia Kyle, and Kate Rudolph among the matchmakers. The agency is the only thread binding them — otherwise every corner of the sky runs by its own rules, its own biology, its own heat. You do not read this world in order. Each series stands alone, each keeps the happily-ever-after it promises, and none asks you to know the others first. Pick the species that catches your eye — the prince, the soldier, the machine learning to love — and begin there. If that mate suits you, the agency has a whole galaxy more waiting behind the next form.

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Celestial Mates at the centre, 6 branches around it.

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31 works · 2016–2019 · busiest 2017 (13 works)

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