Traded to the Tentacle Gladiator

Captured from the wreckage.

Processed like cargo.

Sold to a monster feared by every warrior in the Bloodspire.

After surviving the crash of a freighter, Rian expects rescue, until he’s hauled from the debris, collared, scanned, and marched into an alien auction house where every bid determines a new fate. When the undefeated gladiator Xal’thar offers an impossible sum to claim him, Rian becomes more than property.

He becomes a prize.

Dragged into a labyrinth of stone tunnels, arena noise, and living shadows, Rian learns the truth behind Xal’thar’s reputation. The gladiator is enormous, intelligent, and armed with a nest of tentacles that move with terrifying purpose. Yet beneath the danger lies something colder, sharper, and far harder to escape:

Recognition.

Xal’thar didn’t buy a servant.

He selected a match.

And in the depths of the Bloodspire, where champions kill to keep what’s theirs, Rian discovers that being chosen by a monster may be the only thing keeping him alive.

A dark MM sci-fi monster romance featuring alien abduction, gladiator culture, forced proximity, biological recognition, and an obsessive tentacled Alpha who refuses to lose his new human.

Expect: MM monster romance, tentacle sci fi romance, alien abduction, gladiator arena, dark sci fi romance, forced proximity, biological recognition, alien claim, Bloodspire arena, captive romance, intelligent creature, dark MM romance, alien auction, nonhuman alpha, sci fi captive series.