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Heart's Prisoner

Dark World Mates, Book 1

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Heart's Prisoner

By: Olivia Riley
Narrated by: Maxine Mitchell
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He's not like anything Lana has ever encountered.

Asset X: Massive, deadly, and a little terrifying to say the least. A devilish warrior, and a killer. Captured on a hellish world after attacking a military campsite and now imprisoned in a state-of-the-art cell inside one of the military’s top bases, Lazris. Lana has been assigned to "study" him; to learn his secrets and gain his trust, if he is ever allowed to set foot out of his cell. As a top behaviorist, it is the biggest hurdle of her career.

Asset X - or Xerus as he is called - won't give up his secrets easily. He is difficult, elusive, and dare she say, unfathomably alluring...despite his seething demeanor and hard, frightening physique. Something subconsciously draws her to him. Something wildly irresistible. Even if his wicked smile and needful gaze could just be a ploy to win her trust and escape his cell. She shouldn't think of him like that. He is an alien after all. And possibly their enemy.

Xerus claims he is on a mission. A mission to destroy. And he cannot afford to fail. If he dares let Lana get close, dares open his cold heart to her, she could compromise everything.

This book contains heated intimate scenes and some violence. It is intended for mature listeners.

©2021 Olivia Riley (P)2021 Podium Audio
Romance Science Fiction Fiction
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I loved it! full of suspense and not your typical alien mate love story. Thank Olivia Riley for writing this awesome book!

loved it!

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This was such a great story. To be honest I would class this as a romance book it was way more sci fi than romance which wasn’t bad. Maxine Mitchel as always did a fabulous job narrating this on her own.

Great alien sci fi

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There was more to this than I expected and I'm so glad I gave it a go, as sci-fi isn't always something that interests me.

Lana was a great character, so intelligent and fierce and clever. And I loved how the relationship developed with Xeris and the romance that followed. I thought the supporting characters were also well-developed. The story as a whole was really compelling and I blitzed through it, which I kind of regret, but I guess I'll just have to look at what else Riley has written.

The narration was great. The voices for different characters were distinct and well-performed.

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The performance was fantastic and very enjoyable. I think the narrator saved the story in a lot of places. This book would benefit from a good editor as there seem to be a lot of words used incorrectly - leaped should have been leapt, no matter what google is trying to push upon us. Alien horizontal mamba should be with human parts. And why they were doing the mamba while the bad alien was taking over the planet was too unbelievable. She was doing the all running and wanted to wait on him by washing him, cooking food, waiting on him, clearing the dishes, and making a date with food and decorations that looked like his planet. And throwing herself at him. Yep, don't worry that most likely Earth was going to wipe you out to kill the evil alien, you spend the time playing first date? Over all it's very slow but a good science fiction read. Unfortunately, I did not finish the book after he pulled his Boy Part from under a flap of skin. Too gross. Not sure why if he was a lizard guy, why he was warm blooded? We will never know. I would read more of her books and did enjoy a lot of this book.

Different romance with more sci-fi than romance

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This book was amazing! I loved it ! It's one of those books that even though you just finished it you want to start it again. I was a bit discouraged on how long the book was when I first started it but when I tell you I couldn't stop listening I couldn't stop! The Performance was awesome as we she did a fantastic job.

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