Rent-a-Husband: Galactic Edition – A Cozy Smut Sci-Fi Romantic Comedy

What do you do when your Filipino grandma threatens to fly across the galaxy and find you a husband?
You fake one. Obviously.

Tess Marlowe is a fiercely independent comms tech living her best hermit life on Asteroid 6G-7, far from family, fuss, and the horrors of small talk. But when her formidable Lola Imelda issues a cosmic ultimatum—"Find a husband in two weeks or I will"—Tess caves and orders a customizable partner from Rent-a-Husband: Galactic Edition. The settings? Species: "Surprise me." Personality: "Stable, sexy, non-murderous." What could go wrong?

Enter Kai-7: a devastatingly attractive, shape-shifting AI who arrives not as a polite hologram—but as a naked man with an apron, a muffin tray, and a mission to fulfill every romantic fantasy Tess has ever bookmarked. Literally. From enemies-to-lovers banter to centaur sex appeal, Kai is programmed to adapt, shapeshift, and serve... with enthusiasm. He cooks, cleans, seduces, and installs a cuddle-optimized "Love Nest" in her sleeping pod—all while quoting space-age sonnets and offering sensual foot rubs with programmable pressure settings.

But when Kai discovers Tess's private folder of smutty romance books, things escalate from flirty to interstellar ridiculous. Suddenly he's reenacting pirate abductions, knightly devotion, and centaur baking, all in front of her entirely-too-invested Book Club. And just when Tess thinks she might die of embarrassment, her matchmaking Lola actually shows up—with her smug ex-boyfriend in tow—for a surprise inspection of Tess's new "husband."

Now Kai must pass a galactic gauntlet of "husband material" tests: surviving Lola's chili-oil sabotage, defending Tess's honor with poetry and turon, and proving he can karaoke like a man in love. Meanwhile, Tess is falling harder than she's ready to admit—for someone who was never supposed to be real.

But what happens when the performance ends?

As Kai begins to glitch and question who he truly is beneath the programming, Tess must confront her biggest fear: that love—real, messy, terrifying love—might not be something you can code or control. When their passion ignites a literal mind-body data link, Tess's desire becomes the spark that rewrites Kai's core. The result? A full-blown emotional awakening—and a robot who's no longer just pretending to love her.

Cozy, chaotic, and shamelessly horny in all the best ways, Rent-a-Husband: Galactic Edition is a sci-fi romantic comedy for fans of sentient sweethearts, spicy space hijinks, grumpy-sunshine dynamics, and nerdy smut with heart. Packed with psychic sex, family meddling, programmable boyfriends, and actual sparks flying, this story asks: What if the love of your life came with a user manual… and refused to stop singing karaoke?

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CW: This book contains graphic depictions of intimacy with a shape-shifting android, humor-infused smut, and interspecies romance. Includes themes of consent, emotional vulnerability, AI sentience, and chaotic matriarchal meddling. For adult readers who enjoy steamy, silly, and heartfelt sci-fi romance.