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- Content warnings: Violence, Human trafficking, Sexual assault (referenced), Child abuse (referenced), Sexual content, Kidnapping, Captivity, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Ableism, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Injury detail, Pregnancy
Taken to Kor
by Elizabeth Stephens
Book 5 in Xiveri Mates
Deena and Rhork turn space-pirate danger into a messy, high-heat rescue romance with a surprisingly soft center. It has battles, alien politics, and the exact kind of villain-who-folds-for-her arc this series does best.
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Length294 pages
Series statusCompleted series · 10 books
Spice4/5 · Passionate / intense
PacingFast
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Captor/captive
- Male/female pairing (M/F)
- Slow burn
- High
- Passionate / intense
- Adrenaline rush
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- Pirate captain
- Possessive love interest
- Rough / primal
- Romantic fulfillment
- Villain
- Betrayal to trust
- Possessive / claiming
- Escape
- Secretly soft
- Only soft for them
- Desperate / urgent
- Found family feels
- Possessive alpha
- Protective love interest
- Fantasy / supernatural intimacy
- Anti-hero
- Enemies to lovers
- Frequent explicit scenes
- Fated mates
- Size emphasis
- Found family
- Possessive/protective
- Size difference focus
- Tension
- Rough but consensual
- Mine declarations
- Possessive
- Rough/aggressive intimacy
- Size difference
Fantasy promise
- Sci-fi romance
- Alien romance
- Space station / spaceship / colony
- Space/sci-fi
- Aliens
- Captive romance
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- Prison / captivity
- Villain gets the girl
- Rescue romance
- Interspecies romance
- Forced proximity
Reading experience
- Dual POV
- Fast
- Adventurous
- Humorous
- Moderate
- Medium
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- Survivor
- Plus size MC
- Intense
- Fast-paced
- Snarky/sarcastic
- Interracial romance
- Romantic
- Immersive
- Damaged survivor
- Disabled MC
- Steamy
- Runaway / on the run
- Black MC
- Hopeful
- Pirate seas
- Protect at all costs
- Series binge material
- Addictive pacing
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Book details
- Length
- 294 pages
- Publisher
- Elizabeth Stephens
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book