Mated By Mutiny
Zelda Quinn
She took the job to save her ship, but now she has to end a mutiny to save her fated mate.
The Galactic Dating Service ruined my desperate plan with three words: “Perfect Match Detected.”
I needed Commander Kaelen’s transport job to save my ship from repo—enough credits to finally get the debt collectors off my back. He was everything I avoided: honor-bound, disciplined, the kind of Xylosian who probably color-coded his underwear.
A 99.9% compatibility rating was the last thing I needed.
I tried to maintain professional distance. Impossible when he shared family recipes in my tiny galley, when he trusted my piloting through deadly dangers, when he looked at my chaotic life and saw competence instead of failure. The honor-bound commander was nothing like I expected.
But his crew watches our growing connection with cold disapproval.
And now I’m transporting a mysterious prisoner whose secrets could ignite galactic war, falling for an alien who’s making me question everything I believed about independence. I’ve built walls around my heart to survive in this cold galaxy.
He’s making me want to tear them all down.
Mated by Mutiny is a sci-fi romance packed with witty banter, explosive action, and a slow burn that ignites into a supernova. It’s perfect for fans of forced proximity, competence porn, and heroes who fall first—and hard.
Book Information
Author: Zelda Quinn
Available on: September 8th, 2025
Series: Galactic Dating Service Series
Imprint: Lovelace Lit
Word Count: 52k
Genres: Alien Romance, Romance, Sci-Fi Romance
Formats Available: Ebook
ISBNs: 978-1-966024-08-8
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Chapters from Mated By Mutiny...
Mated By Mutiny – Chapter 1
The red alert on my primary finance console blinks with the steady, patient rhythm of a predator. Payment Overdue.
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The air in Admiral Vorlag’s command office is a silent, weighted presence. It’s recycled, of course, but it carries the scent of ionized metal and the absolute stillness of authority.
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Neutral Space Station Gamma-9 glitters outside my viewport like a shard of broken glass. It’s all sterile angles and cold, impersonal light, a monument to the galaxy’s obsession with efficiency...
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The human captain, Rostova, is… complicated. As I oversee the transfer of the asset, I take note of her movements and mannerisms.
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I stand in the cargo hold for a long moment after Kaelen and his pet stormtrooper, Valerius, make their exit. The air is still hazy with smoke, and the metallic...
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The Stardust Drifter is an affront to logic. For the past twelve standard hours, I have confined myself to the small cabin assigned to me, reviewing the mission parameters and...
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The next GDS notification arrives twenty-six hours after the engine room incident. It doesn’t come over a compromised comms link or a public terminal.
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The data is an intricate web of contradictions. For the past two cycles, I have tracked Sub-Commander Valerius’s movements through the ship’s internal sensor logs.
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The ship’s internal sensor logs are a river of data, a ceaseless flow of temporal and spatial coordinates tracking the movement of every soul aboard the Stardust Drifter. For the...
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Sleep doesn’t come easy on a ship that isn’t truly yours anymore. I finally drift off, my mind still churning over the image of Kaelen’s face in the rec room...
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The ship’s chronometer indicates the start of a new cycle. I’ve been awake for three standard hours, though I have not left my cabin.
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My hands are steady as I calibrate the micro-fabricator. The machine hums, its focused laser meticulously building the new pressure regulator, layer by layer, from a block of polymer alloy.
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The corridor leading to Captain Rostova’s quarters is a journey into enemy territory, and the enemy is myself. Every step betrays the man I was trained to be.
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My first thought is of heat. A deep, radiating warmth that starts in the center of my chest and spreads through my limbs, chasing away the chills that vibrate through...
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Consciousness returns not as a gentle dawn, but as a hostile system reboot. The first diagnostic is pain: a low-frequency, percussive pounding behind my optical sensors that syncs with the...
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The darkness is absolute. It’s a physical presence, pressing in on me, thick and suffocating.
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The waiting is a specialized form of torment. It’s a vacuum in which every variable of a flawed tactical plan can be analyzed to the point of absurdity.
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The ship is screaming. My ship. The klaxon is a high-pitched, cyclical shriek that vibrates through the metal of the duct and into my teeth. Below me, the corridor is...
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The shriek of the alarm, the angry sizzle of the live power cable writhing in the chemical foam, the low groan of stressed metal. The mutiny is over.
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