Star Grooms

Sentenced for a crime that barely mattered, Frank van Pelt is shipped to a forgotten penal colony on a far-away planet and bound by law to marry a woman he's never met.

Zora 800, a penal colony disguised as a silk farm, has swallowed three hundred women whole—their sentences long expired, their freedom quietly forgotten. When Earth ships in one hundred male convicts as husbands, it isn't mercy. It's control dressed up as marriage.

Frank van Pelt didn't choose this life, and he refuses to belong to it—until he's handed a wife he never asked for…Zyla Penderon, sharp-eyed and unbreakable, the woman every female prisoner already follows.

Rivals become allies. Allies become something neither of them can name. And as rebellion catches like fire through the colony, Frank and Zyla must decide if a bond forged in coercion can ever become one freely chosen—before the truth of Zora 800 burns them both.