Double Take
The second time around is double or nothing…
Getting over the death of her husband has been a long, slow process for pottery artist Faith Hammond. But five years have passed, and she’s making a new life for herself, moving from Earth to planet Terra Nova and opening up a pottery shop. She’s finally finding the calm and focus she’s been seeking.
Until there’s a knock at her cottage door.
Standing there is her very-much-alive husband, Mark.
John Bragg is Mark Hammond’s clone. After the Dark Ops agent dies, Bragg takes his place, assuming all aspects of his life, except for one—his marriage. Faith is deemed off-limits. But in studying his progenitor to impersonate him, Bragg has fallen for the man’s widow.
He resigns himself to unrequited love until he hears Faith is looking to remarry—she has joined the interplanetary matchmaking service, Cosmic Mates.
He can’t bear to lose her again. He goes AWOL from Dark Ops in a last-ditch effort to claim the woman he desperately loves.
But can Bragg convince Faith he’s a clone? And if he can, will she be able to see him as a unique individual—or will he never be more than a dead ringer for her late husband?
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Double Take (Cosmic Mates 5) is the first book of a new Cosmic Mates duet. The series books are released in couplets, each its own mini-series. Books 1 & 2 are a set, books 3 & 4 are a new set, and books 5 and 6 are different set.
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Cara Bristol
Cara Bristol is a USA Today bestselling author who has carved out a unique niche in the world of science fiction romance. Known for her captivating stories featuring tough alien and cyborg heroes, Cara’s novels take readers on thrilling journeys where strong-willed heroines and brooding, powerful protagonists collide in worlds full of passion, danger, and adventure.
When she's not conjuring up faraway galaxies or envisioning futuristic worlds, Cara enjoys the quiet pleasures of home life. A self-proclaimed homebody, she shares her life with her husband, a wanderer at heart. Together, they travel the globe while checking off items on her bucket list—most notably, visiting all seven continents and, in a lighter moment, petting a squirrel. It's these very contrasts—her love of the familiar and her curiosity for the unknown—that infuse her writing with depth, allowing readers to escape into complex, yet relatable stories.
Cosmic Mates
Not all soulmates are born on Earth. In Cosmic Mates, love is written in the stars—sometimes in alien script, sometimes in instinct—and always with consequences that ripple across galaxies. This series blends sizzling sci-fi romance with pulse-pounding adventure, bringing together interstellar warriors, unlikely heroines, and bonds that transcend planets, species, and logic.
Cosmic Mates consists of eight books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
Reviews and Comments
This is the first book in the newest duet of this series and I thought it was a fun and interesting story. I enjoyed getting to know both John Bragg & Faith Hammond in this story and like Faith's friend Amity as well. I am looking forward to reading the next book in this duet about Amity & Marshall Clark and seeing how things go for the two of them after how rocky things between them at the end of this book.
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