
Kept from the Deep
Venora Mates, Book 2
Failed to add items
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$0.99/mo for the first 3 months

Buy for $33.90
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrated by:
-
J.F. Harding
-
By:
-
Octavia Kore
About this listen
A forgotten past, a tormented present, and a future in jeopardy.
She’s been abducted from Earth, experimented on in the Grutex labs, and thrown into the path of not just one massive alien mate, but two. As a Filipina nurse living in America, she isn’t a stranger to adapting to unusual situations, but nothing could have prepared her for what’s to come.
He’s hidden behind a mask of humor his entire life, but the fierce little female who holds Brin at gunpoint the very first time they meet, and the haunted Grutex scientist, can see right through it and into the depths of his soul where he keeps his darkest secrets. He never wanted to find them, but now that he has, Brin will do everything he can to protect them.
He was supposed to oversee their care, but he wasn’t ever meant to feel anything for the human test subjects. Unlike the rest of his kind, Nuzal finds himself feeling sympathy and guilt over what’s being done within the labs on the Grutex ship, but he never in his wildest dreams expected to feel love.
Will her mates ever be free of their pasts, and will they be able to escape in time to save humanity from the monsters of the universe?
This is an MMF romance with dark tones that may contain triggers.
©2021 Octavia Kore (P)2021 Podium AudioListeners also enjoyed...
-
Ecstasy from the Deep
- Venora Mates, Book 1
- By: Octavia Kore
- Narrated by: J.F. Harding
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The seemingly endless war with the Grutex has caused many inconveniences for Amanda, but none of those have been as bad as losing the funding for the project she is working on, which is supposed to help save humanity. When she foolishly risks her life to continue her research, Amanda is thrown into the path of an alien, the likes of which she has never seen, who claims she is his mate. The problem is, he isn’t the only one making that claim.
-
-
Damsel dumb heroine YUCK
- By Dae on 02-27-21
By: Octavia Kore
-
Heart's Prisoner
- Dark World Mates, Book 1
- By: Olivia Riley
- Narrated by: Maxine Mitchell
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Asset X: Massive, deadly, and a little terrifying to say the least. A devilish warrior, and a killer. Captured on a hellish world after attacking a military campsite and now imprisoned in a state-of-the-art cell inside one of the military’s top bases, Lazris. Lana has been assigned to "study" him; to learn his secrets and gain his trust, if he is ever allowed to set foot out of his cell. Asset X - or Xerus as he is called - won't give up his secrets easily. He is difficult, elusive, and dare she say, unfathomably alluring.
-
-
An ACTUAL good adventure alien romance novel
- By potsherds on 07-05-21
By: Olivia Riley
-
Vork
- Mail-Order Brides of Crakair, Book 1
- By: Ava Ross
- Narrated by: Teddy Hamilton, Tawnia Murray
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Burned by an ex, the last thing Evie wants is a husband, especially a seven-foot-tall, green-skinned alien. But when she applies to the Extraterrestrial Matchmaking Service on a dare, she's paired with Vork and sent to Crakair as a mail-order bride. Vork is big and dangerous, and he hits all her buttons. Passion sparks between them, but does she dare trust this sexy alien with her heart?
-
-
Fully romance
- By Carol on 05-22-21
By: Ava Ross
-
Broken Earth
- Argurma Salvager, Book 1
- By: S.J. Sanders
- Narrated by: Jessica Threet, Christopher Boucher
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Veral’monushava’skahalur is an oddity among his species, a lone Argurma cyborg divorced from his own kind by choice and to escape termination as a malfunctioning unit. Wandering the fringes of space as a salvager, he comes across a planet beyond the boundaries of the federation, rich in metals remnant of a dead civilization. Or so he thought. Confronted by cannibalistic mutations of the indigenous species, his salvage has suddenly become a lot more complicated. Even more so when he encounters a female surviving on her own....
-
-
Amazing!!!!!!!
- By ☠🌹Manda🌹☠ on 09-19-21
By: S.J. Sanders
-
Ragorou Romances: Boxset 1
- By: S.J. Sanders
- Narrated by: Luca Frost
- Length: 25 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Three stories of human women finding love among their alien Ragoru triads, set in a dystopian version of Earth. This box set includes: Red, White, and Huntress.
-
-
Well worth the credit, if you like Alien romance!
- By Lady G on 07-11-21
By: S.J. Sanders
-
Classified Planet: Turongal
- The Darvel Exploratory Systems, Book 1
- By: S.J. Sanders
- Narrated by: Tess Irondale
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In the future: A united Earth, to deal with the problem of population control, divides its population into classes of citizen and non-gratis. To be born a non-gratis means a life of little freedoms and the constant possibility of being assigned to work on a colony. Lacking citizenship, every aspect of their life is controlled from where they live down to marriage and childbearing regulations. The only possible escape from life as a non-gratis is to qualify for one of the limited slots available for entrance into the military.
-
-
Great Listen!
- By Lily S. Thomas on 08-18-21
By: S.J. Sanders
-
Ecstasy from the Deep
- Venora Mates, Book 1
- By: Octavia Kore
- Narrated by: J.F. Harding
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The seemingly endless war with the Grutex has caused many inconveniences for Amanda, but none of those have been as bad as losing the funding for the project she is working on, which is supposed to help save humanity. When she foolishly risks her life to continue her research, Amanda is thrown into the path of an alien, the likes of which she has never seen, who claims she is his mate. The problem is, he isn’t the only one making that claim.
-
-
Damsel dumb heroine YUCK
- By Dae on 02-27-21
By: Octavia Kore
-
Heart's Prisoner
- Dark World Mates, Book 1
- By: Olivia Riley
- Narrated by: Maxine Mitchell
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Asset X: Massive, deadly, and a little terrifying to say the least. A devilish warrior, and a killer. Captured on a hellish world after attacking a military campsite and now imprisoned in a state-of-the-art cell inside one of the military’s top bases, Lazris. Lana has been assigned to "study" him; to learn his secrets and gain his trust, if he is ever allowed to set foot out of his cell. Asset X - or Xerus as he is called - won't give up his secrets easily. He is difficult, elusive, and dare she say, unfathomably alluring.
-
-
An ACTUAL good adventure alien romance novel
- By potsherds on 07-05-21
By: Olivia Riley
-
Vork
- Mail-Order Brides of Crakair, Book 1
- By: Ava Ross
- Narrated by: Teddy Hamilton, Tawnia Murray
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Burned by an ex, the last thing Evie wants is a husband, especially a seven-foot-tall, green-skinned alien. But when she applies to the Extraterrestrial Matchmaking Service on a dare, she's paired with Vork and sent to Crakair as a mail-order bride. Vork is big and dangerous, and he hits all her buttons. Passion sparks between them, but does she dare trust this sexy alien with her heart?
-
-
Fully romance
- By Carol on 05-22-21
By: Ava Ross
-
Broken Earth
- Argurma Salvager, Book 1
- By: S.J. Sanders
- Narrated by: Jessica Threet, Christopher Boucher
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Veral’monushava’skahalur is an oddity among his species, a lone Argurma cyborg divorced from his own kind by choice and to escape termination as a malfunctioning unit. Wandering the fringes of space as a salvager, he comes across a planet beyond the boundaries of the federation, rich in metals remnant of a dead civilization. Or so he thought. Confronted by cannibalistic mutations of the indigenous species, his salvage has suddenly become a lot more complicated. Even more so when he encounters a female surviving on her own....
-
-
Amazing!!!!!!!
- By ☠🌹Manda🌹☠ on 09-19-21
By: S.J. Sanders
-
Ragorou Romances: Boxset 1
- By: S.J. Sanders
- Narrated by: Luca Frost
- Length: 25 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Three stories of human women finding love among their alien Ragoru triads, set in a dystopian version of Earth. This box set includes: Red, White, and Huntress.
-
-
Well worth the credit, if you like Alien romance!
- By Lady G on 07-11-21
By: S.J. Sanders
-
Classified Planet: Turongal
- The Darvel Exploratory Systems, Book 1
- By: S.J. Sanders
- Narrated by: Tess Irondale
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In the future: A united Earth, to deal with the problem of population control, divides its population into classes of citizen and non-gratis. To be born a non-gratis means a life of little freedoms and the constant possibility of being assigned to work on a colony. Lacking citizenship, every aspect of their life is controlled from where they live down to marriage and childbearing regulations. The only possible escape from life as a non-gratis is to qualify for one of the limited slots available for entrance into the military.
-
-
Great Listen!
- By Lily S. Thomas on 08-18-21
By: S.J. Sanders
-
Captured by Aliens Complete Boxed Set
- The Complete Alien Abduction Romance Series (5 books)
- By: A.G. Wilde
- Narrated by: B.N. Love
- Length: 36 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Step into a captivating world of alien romance and adventure with the thrilling box set of the Captured by Aliens series.
-
-
The main character stupidity
- By Suzette Brown on 12-11-23
By: A.G. Wilde
-
Warriors of the Oasis
- Complete 3-Book Series Box Set
- By: Ivy Sparks
- Narrated by: Azalea Blau
- Length: 17 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The Warriors of the Oasis series features tribal aliens who happen upon human women trapped on a harsh desert planet. The women are feisty, smart, and loyal. The aliens are strong, devoted, and sweet. The challenges they face may seem insurmountable, but if they accept their fated connection, they just might survive. Books included in this set: Book 1: Alien Seed, Book 2: Taken by the Alien Savage, and Book 3: Savage Seed. Grab the collection today to get started on this exciting series by Ivy Sparks!
-
-
Warriors
- By Sue R. on 10-06-22
By: Ivy Sparks
-
Xora
- Vrisha Warriors Series, Book 1
- By: Olivia Riley
- Narrated by: Penelope Ann Rose
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A vrisha arrives in Grace's underwater city. He takes over one of the substations, forcing the workers out. At the whim of her job, Grace is unwillingly chosen to go below, maintain the station, and stay with the horned, devilish alien. That is how she comes to encounter Xora. An alien born from a race of dominant fighters and fierce hunters. He is as terrifying as he is mysterious. While also commanding, stubborn, unrelenting...and oddly mesmerizing. As her fear slips away, other emotions begin to take hold. And Grace finds she wants to know more.
-
-
Low on chemistry, emotion or action
- By 🔥 Phx17 🔥 on 10-26-23
By: Olivia Riley
-
Desire in His Blood
- Brides of the Kylorr, Book 1
- By: Zoey Draven
- Narrated by: Marcio Catalano, Stella Hunter
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Gemma Hara is drowning under the weight of her father’s debts. Working herself to the bone, she knows that if she doesn’t pay them off in time, the sadistic creditors will take everything: their home, their respected name, and, worst of all, her two beautiful sisters.
-
-
Great start
- By 📚Erin 📚 on 05-22-24
By: Zoey Draven
-
Wed to the Alien Warlord
- Accidental Alien Brides, Book 1
- By: January Bell
- Narrated by: Mason Lloyd, Hollie Jackson
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
As the first humans allowed in Suevan space, there’s a lot riding on my all-woman team. Earth desperately needs their tech, and I’m determined to prove we can negotiate the price. Without their planetary defense systems, Earth is a sitting duck, ripe for invasion. Except the Suevan culture is nothing like ours. When I take part in what I think is a welcoming ceremony, I leave with more than I bargained for: a husband. A mate. Apparently, we’re there to marry them as payment—something the top brass on Earth doesn’t bother denying. Fantastic.
-
-
Derivative but good!
- By Ilikebooksbest on 04-18-23
By: January Bell
-
I Married a Lizardman
- By: Regine Abel
- Narrated by: Daryl Mayfield
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
As a third daughter on the farming colony of Meterion, Susan’s future prospects aren’t too promising. A pretty face, top-notch skills, and hard work mean nothing if your dowry doesn’t include fertile lands. With her 25th birthday approaching, and no suitors, her only way out is to settle for an arranged marriage through the PMA - the Prime Mating Agency. She just never expected to be paired with a grumpy, massive lizardman, and above all not to grow so fond of his scales and quirky ways.
-
-
Surprising
- By Taramisu on 02-25-22
By: Regine Abel
-
Viper
- Naga Brides, Book 1
- By: Naomi Lucas
- Narrated by: John Masterson, Elizabeth Hart
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Long have we been alone; without brides, without females to warm us during the long nights, without sweet mates. But we see them from afar, the brides that could be ours. Kept away from us by walls and weapons. Females we long for greatly...obsessively. Human females. And the one with red hair? I want her. I saw her first. I will fight to the death for her. She is mine. So, we’ll come together and make an exchange with their men that will benefit us all. After that? To the winner goes the spoil. Let the hunt begin...but the red-headed female is mine.
-
-
Could Not Finish It
- By Julia Page on 11-13-21
By: Naomi Lucas
-
Ensnared
- The Spider's Mate, Book 1
- By: Tiffany Roberts
- Narrated by: Macie Miller, Marcus Rayne
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Ketahn did not want a mate. Fate has a different plan for him. When the queen he despises declares her intention to claim him, he retreats into the jungle.
-
-
A must have!! A worthy surprise.
- By B and D on 03-29-23
By: Tiffany Roberts
-
A Soul to Keep
- Duskwalker Brides, Book 1
- By: Opal Reyne
- Narrated by: Wolfgang Milliken, Elise Hoffman
- Length: 17 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Known as a harbinger of bad omens and blamed for Demons eating her family, Reia is shunned by her entire village. When the next offering is due and the monstrous Duskwalker is seen heading their way, her village offers her an impossible choice—be thrown into the prison cells or allow herself to be sacrificed to a faceless monster.
-
-
A TOE-CURLING LISTEN
- By ➷➹➸❥HFB🔹🔹🔹 on 12-06-23
By: Opal Reyne
-
Voxeran Fated Mates Box Set Books 1-3
- A Sci-Fi Alien Romance
- By: Presley Hall
- Narrated by: Kat Auden, C.J. Grey, Karla Serrato
- Length: 21 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Stranded human women find their protective, devoted alien mates in this binge-ready sci-fi romance collection! This three-book omnibus includes Her Alien Price, Her Alien Savior and Her Alien Beast. The collection contains three full-length stand-alone sci-fi romance stories featuring powerful alien warriors who will claim your heart. Each book in this thrilling and steamy series has no cliffhanger and a happily ever after guaranteed!
-
-
More Sex than Story
- By Amazon Customer on 01-18-22
By: Presley Hall
-
Draekon Desire: Exiled to the Prison Planet: The Complete Collection
- A Sci-Fi Dragon Shifter Menage Romance Boxed Set
- By: Lili Zander, Lee Savino
- Narrated by: Misty Dawn, Natasha Lawless, Ry Forest, and others
- Length: 39 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
We are Draekons. Dangerous, fire-breathing dragon shifters. For the safety of the galaxy, we’ve been exiled to a prison planet. Then, a spaceship carrying human women crashes into our lives. The instant we lay eyes on them, we know. They are our mates. Ours to protect. Ours to cherish. Ours. Forever. Draekon Desire: Exiled to the Prison Planet: The Complete Collection features hours of exciting, heart-pounding, panty-melting alien dragon shifter menage romance.
-
-
Great collection hampered by poor production
- By Audible Kindle on 01-04-21
By: Lili Zander, and others
-
Contaminated
- Cosmic Fairy Tales
- By: Amanda Milo
- Narrated by: Nick Cracknell
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The people of my planet are under a devastating genetic curse. To treat the disease’s effects, we’ve turned to cultivating a rare flower. That’s my occupation: raising and studying this flower. That’s precisely what I’m doing the daycycle that an alien drops into our research plot, approaches our plant….
-
-
Howled out loud
- By Prickleypear on 05-22-23
By: Amanda Milo
What listeners say about Kept from the Deep
Highly rated for:
Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Sue R.
- 04-22-22
2nd Deep
Although there is very little water in this story (the same as in the 1st story), the angst & suspense & storyline was enthralling. I, at first thought that I wasn’t going to like the second story, mainly bc I couldn’t see the FMC as a love interest. Which is why I waited to listen to this story. But after 20 minutes I was engrossed into the story. I carried my phone everywhere even on my walk bc the story was so entertaining. Narrators we’re wonderful. And the story entangled characters from the first story which I enjoyed. I highly recommend both this story & the first one. It definitely isn’t boring.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Mokina Reeves
- 10-10-23
Suspenseful
The story took up and semi merged with first book. I enjoyed how overlapping unfolded. Very excellent read.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Kristine
- 10-13-21
Eeeeiiiieeee!!!
I found this series by looking for books read by J.F. Harding. I read or listen to a book a day, and he’s easily in my top 5 narrators.
I feel like I stumbled upon a gold mine with these two (so far) books. Adventure, romance, mystery, sci-fi … I gobbled them up.
Can’t wait for book 3! Highly recommend!!!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
2 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- PowderRiverRose
- 03-27-22
Great story
The first was fabulous and so is this one. Humor, horror, triumph and love fill these rather in depth books. Excellent narration
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- TA
- 10-31-21
Loved it
This was a great storyline; it was different and refreshing; nothing was easy and the struggle gave it depth. Narrator did a fabulous job with characters. Looking forward to listening to the next book in series if the author chooses to write one
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
4 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- amanda shelton
- 08-07-22
Surprising, in the best way!
I am not normally a fan of male narrators, however, J.F. Harding is amazing! His voice acting is the perfect touch to a really awesome series.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Shaylah
- 04-12-22
Awesome
Great book, kept my attention all the way to the end, amazing audio delivery, loved it. Will be reading again, every chapter was received amazingly do recommend you give it a read.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Cindy Toribio
- 06-08-22
Love it
I love the story I like Junifer she is a bad ass girls in her own way.. I love how the story line is progressing, very interesting.. I really recommend this series. do not get the comments or the photos posted get to you. this series 👌 is pretty good and different.. I love it and I believe you will too.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Maranda
- 05-15-22
❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🥰❤️❤️🥰❤️❤️❤️
I love this saga and I love the epilogue. Lolz 😂
I can’t wait to read the next book.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- A. E. Murray
- 09-13-23
LOVE JF HARDING, but struggled with this book
While I LOVE JF Harding (especially Kage Trilogy) and the production was good, I struggled to push thru to the end of this book. I enjoyed the first book in the series and liked June as a side character, but found her very aggravating and b*#@&y here. The male protagonists I loved. Just wish the female was less pigheaded. Overall the story was decent and I like the world building of the ship. Definitely recommend not skipping the first book though to understand better what is going on and the planet they travel to.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!