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To the Swoon and Back
Paperback
Publisher Price: $25.99
Publisher: J.E. Maier
Published: Sep 18 2025
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
They're the galaxy's most compatible couple. Whether they like it or not.
When struggling baker Wren Calix crash-lands on the Lunar Moonbase, she's enrolled-against her will-in MATCH, the galaxy's most infamous matchmaking program. Thirty days of couples' challenges designed to spark romance between species, with no way out until it's over.
Legally married and nowhere near a functional oven, she does what any reasonable woman would do: plans to make her new husband's life unbearable. But her contractually obligated mate-89% compatible, according to the program-has other ideas.
Kai Mistral is an alien prince, enormous even by intergalactic standards. A master of grudges and humorless diplomacy, he's intent on making her just as miserable.
Between Kai's infuriating intensity, a pack of sidekicks who never know when to shut up-including one sarcastic orb with opinions about everything-and armed staff who won't answer a single direct question, nothing about the Moonbase matches the brochure.
Unlucky for them, Wren has never been one to roll over. And the deeper she digs, the worse it gets. The trials keep escalating. Couples who fail are never seen again. And the orb keeps yapping about being deprogrammed. But rebellion comes with a price, and it isn't just their hearts on the line-it's everyone MATCH has ever touched.
To the Swoon and Back is a spicy sci-fi rom-com with the structure of Dungeon Crawler Carl and the absurdity of Douglas Adams. For readers who like their romance inconvenient, their heroines mouthy, their aliens anatomically ambitious, and their institutions toppled.
The closed-door edition is available as To the Moon and Back.
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