Fifteen best-selling, award-winning, and debut authors united by their love of ​romance, adventure, and storytelling present sweet and spicy short stories in ​this anthology. With spice levels ranging from tender to volcanic and settings ​including our own moon, distant terraformed planets, deep-space vessels, a ​decadent nightclub, and a gangster’s intergalactic casino, Tempted by ​Celestial Bodies offers tales for every taste. This inclusive collection also ​features LGBTQ and demi representation. Join us on a journey across the ​stars and into the vast wonders and passions of the human heart.

“Praise Dilf! A Casino Caper” by Aurelie Bell: Sexual content, cursing, kidnapping, trafficking, forced ​sex work (dancing), nonstandard anatomy

“Bound to the Primal Prince” by Charissa Weaks: Explicit sex, non-standard anatomy, mild graphic ​language/cursing, mild blood/gore, forced marriage

“Crocheter’s Guide to Alien Conservation” by Elisse Hay: Thalassaphobia, medical gaslighting, non-​standard anatomy, explicit sexual content

“Resonant Drives” by Erin Fulmer: Abduction/kidnapping, on-page masturbation, dubious consent, ​somnophila/dream sex, sex under biochemical influence, bondage/restraints, face-fucking, double ​penetration, triple penetration, tentacles, breeding kink, knotting, body horror, power imbalance, ​possessive love interest, fuck or die, age difference

“Dream Broker” by J.E. McDonald: Explicit sex, swearing, brief battle-related gore/blood

“An Indelicate Negotiation” by jem zero: Explicit sex, workplace relationship, non-standard ​anatomy, gender dysphoria

“Ratchet & Clanked” by Kristin Jacques: Mention of sexual exploitation & abuse (nonexplicit),

mention of botched genital surgery (non-graphic), explicit sex

“Blue Moon” by Lily Riley: Blood, cursing, death (off page), explicit sex

“Swept Away in Stardust” by Lisa Edmonds: Memory loss, threat with weapon, severe/life-​threatening injury (due to accident), threat of hypothermia (due to accident in space), threat of ​asphyxiation (due to accident in space), threat of starvation/dehydration (due to accident in ​space), threat of death (due to accident in space), explicit sex

“Cosmic Cravings” by Lita Grey: Captivity, mentions of off-page violence, loss of co​nsciousness, mentions of violent past, power imbalance, explicit sex

“​O​ne Night with the Blue Billionaire” by Megan Van Dyke: Adult Language, anxiety, consensual sex, dr​inking, pushy/aggressive male (not the MMC), sex club setting

“​T​he Twelfth Ambassador” by Mindi Briar: Colonialism, insects (non-horror context), violent conflict wi​th wildlife, heights, live burial (brief, non-POV), difficult parental relationship

“​R​ed Space” by S.C. Grayson: Isolation, war (remembered), serious physical injury (remembered), th​reat of death (due to accident in space), blood play, masturbation, explicit sex

“​T​horoughly Thrashed” by S.L. Choi: Cave-in/trapped, risk of hypothermia, involuntary clothing re​moval, violence with a weapon, explicit sex

“​Y​ou’re It” by Winter Elliot: Discussion of childhood neglect/abandonment, mild sexual content