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Arranged Monster Mates #5

Wed to the Dragon

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If I want to become the next Dragon King, I need a bride.

But a bride is easy to find. My brother has chosen one, and now it’s my turn. A soul mate, on the other hand… Over the last few centuries, the existence of perfect soul mates has become a legend. Dragons, just as humans, get bonded and then unbonded. That’s not what I want. While my brother has brought home a bride from a noble dragon family, I want to bring home a real soul mate, and I am willing to look beyond my species.

Our father, the Dragon King who’s given us years of prosperity, is retiring. Between my brother and I, he will choose the strongest to be his successor. And that means, the one who has the most loyal, devoted, and brave warrior bride.

Only the Temple can find my soul mate. A drop of blood, and I will have my DNA match. It will be perfect. She will be perfect for me, because the DNA test never fails. And when my one true soul mate joins me, we will sit on the throne together and be invincible.

But first, she’ll have to pass the three trials.

The Temple, a matchmaking service for monsters, shifters, and aliens, is open for service.
Arranged Monster Mates is a series of novellas written by your favorite paranormal and sci-fi romance Eden Ember, Layla Fae, and Cara Wylde.
Each of these steamy stories has it a possessive male, a heroine ready to sacrifice herself to the beast, plenty of spice, and a happily ever after to curl your toes!

84 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 14, 2023

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Cara Wylde

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Cara Wylde loves to write about strong, feisty women and their hot Alphas who will do anything to make them happy. Her books are filled with romance and just a dash of mystery, suspense, and that eerie atmosphere she fell in love with reading too many gothic novels. With a master's degree in Comparative Literature, she can't help but play with tropes and themes from various genres, trying to come up with fresh perspectives on the paranormal characters her readers love so much. Vampires, shape-shifters, demons, witches... Cara will always make sure they get their own twists.

When she's not writing, Cara is reading, planning her next story, or daydreaming. Her idea of pure heaven is a day filled with nothing but her laptop, a huge coffee pot, relaxing music, and a new, exciting project.

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Profile Image for ➦Paulette & Her Sexy Alphas .
1,173 reviews343 followers
March 7, 2024




Aryan and Ruby’s story

If Aryan wanted to become the next Dragon King, he needs a bride.

Back in the lands of the Dragons, they had a tradition when came to Assigning the next king to the throne ……. Daryan was the oldest of the 2 brothers, but that did not automatically give him the rights to the throne. …
Between Daryan and Aryan, the strongest would win. Except they weren’t the ones who had to prove our strength. As brothers, they were equal. So, the deciding factor was going to be their brides. The bride that finished the Dragonbonded Trials first would prove to be worthy to be queen

Aryan’s brother Daryan had chosen his bride a few months before, from one of the noble families…. But Aryan believe in the old ways, he wanted more than a bride,He wanted a fated mate. Apparently, he was the last dragon to believe in fated mates


Holy smokes, I just love Ruby’s Character in this particular Installment….


Ruby is a female Version of Robin Hood. She steals from the rich to give to the poor. As you might know from my previous reviews, that this particular series is surrounded around the fact that the humans are living in destitute as the aliens are living in spectacular housing living like kings……. I guess they have their own right due to the fact that they saved the Human race.

Nothing has truly changed in the future. The rich. Keep getting richer and the poor keep getting poorer. Of course, the human wealthy abuse, the less fortunate of their race.
So that’s where Ruby comes in, her and her best friend from childhood, and his boyfriend, – and they stole a little food here, skimmed a little there, not enough to raise suspicion. They kept their families fed this way. They all worked for the rich families in the city, but they never paid them enough. And when Ruby’s mother died after giving birth to her little brother, only Ruby and her father worked, and they didn’t make nearly enough to pay the rent on their rundown house, the bills, and have enough to feed the four of them. So, Ruby did what she had to do.

Ruby needed an out due to the fact that the. authorities were on her trail…… And he was looking for his fated mate…….. So they both sent in their DNA Hoping to find a mate.



I was just about ready to give up this series, I kind of felt like this series is just a wash, rinse, repeat….. This one revived it for me…… Let’s hope that these 3 authors pick up their pace and stop giving us the same old same ol




Profile Image for Stillbelieveinnightmares (busy).
116 reviews25 followers
June 9, 2025
2.5/5 rounded up

overall the story and writing just didn't feel finished. I'm far from disliking insta love >especially in a fated mates kind of situation, but here were several situations happening too fast. they were contradictory to the doubts and worries voiced by the leading characters and didn't mix very well for me.

I did like that, considering how short this novella is, it has a decent plot and multiple supporting characters with most of them showing varying nuances of personality.
Profile Image for enqi ☾⋆˚*̣̩✩.
390 reviews1,138 followers
March 20, 2025
In this instalment of monster erotica, a human girl is mated to a dragon prince. Except she has to pass a series of trials while competing with dragon females in order to become the dragons' queen. Can the dragons truly accept a human as their queen?

I was quite excited for this one because WINGS ‼️ However I was quickly disappointed. The spicy scenes were decent enough but there was barely any mention of wings 🪽 All that wasted potential!!

Wings aside, we are first introduced to Ruby (fmc) when she's a thief who steals food and medicine from the rich to give to the poor. All in all, the impression created was that Ruby was a scrappy, shrewd, capable girl with a heart of gold, fighting for a noble cause. Yet the minute she was whisked away to the palace and met Aryan (mmc), that all changed.

“Only if you want to. I thought that you might want to have your own room in the beginning. We can move at the pace you feel comfortable with.”
Well, that only made me want to move faster, because he was ticking all the right boxes. I hadn’t even realized I had a list of traits I wanted in a man before meeting Aryan. 


Girl please a man who respects boundaries is the bare minimum and you're already thinking about sex 💀💀 I hated how she put out so quickly. It wasn't in line with who she was in the beginning. And during the dragon trials, she ended up accepting Aryan's "help" (basically he could appear in front of her and give advice). Which fell short of my expectations again because I was hoping she'd kick ass all by herself. The author completely destroyed all the potential her character had.

The dragon trials were still an interesting addition to the story though, so there was some semblance of a plot this time. And despite my gripes with her enlisting Aryan's "help", I liked how she won the trial with her human traits: kindness, loyalty, compassion and wit.

Including part of a spicy scene 🌶️

"It's so hard for me to hold back, Ruby,” he said as he pulled out slightly and pushed back in. “You’re so right, so delicious... I just want...” He pulled out again and rammed into me harder.


Love when a man (or dragon in this case) is rendered incoherent because of how good she feels 🤭🤭
Profile Image for Cat H.
1,972 reviews218 followers
August 11, 2023
2.8 stars.
Kind of just, meh honestly.
Really, the only thing it had going for it was that it was sweet.
I mean, everything else wasn’t bad, it was just blah.
The sex was kind of boring. The plot was very simple because it was so short, but it was made out to be this very important thing. And then the trial itself was so anticlimactic and easy for the FMC that it all just felt a little pointless..no consequences or even rewards.
I don’t know.
Really, I don’t think it was bad.
It just wasn’t very exciting either.
Profile Image for Audi♡.
762 reviews77 followers
May 28, 2024
I love the cover!
Dragon boy was way better than the Grumpy Orc.

Off to the next one
Profile Image for BelleLovesRomance.
349 reviews276 followers
April 5, 2025
⭐️ 4/5 🌶 2/5

Aryan is such a hopeless romantic—a man after my own heart. 😍

🐲 MF monster romance
🐲 Arranged marriage
🐲 Fated mates
🐲 Virgin FMC
🐲 Hopeless romantic MMC
🐲 Breeding
🐲 Low-angst, sweet, swoony, actiony
🐲 HEA
Profile Image for readbydj 🧺.
426 reviews304 followers
June 11, 2024
the fmc was a badass and the dragon was a huge little cinnamon roll 😭
Profile Image for Serena Books.
1,987 reviews106 followers
June 16, 2023
Drag-n
'No importaba que ella fuera humana y no pudiera volar. Ella tenía el corazón de un dragón.'




•Mi opinión puede contener Spoilers.
•Esta destinada a ser un descargo personal no para que alguien más lea pero si lo haces y te ofende, me disculpo porque sé lo que es que te guste un libro y otros lo critiquen.





Wed to the Dragon de Cara Wylde serie Arranged Monster Mates varías autoras.

Argumento:

Si quiero convertirme en el próximo Rey Dragón, necesito una novia.

Pero una novia es fácil de encontrar. Mi hermano ha elegido una, y ahora es mi turno. Un alma gemela, por otro lado…

En los últimos siglos, la existencia de almas gemelas perfectas se ha convertido en una leyenda. Los dragones, al igual que los humanos, se unen y luego se desatan. Eso no es lo que quiero. Mientras que mi hermano trajo a casa una novia de una noble familia de dragones, yo quiero traer a casa una verdadera alma gemela y estoy dispuesto a mirar más allá de mi especie.

Nuestro padre, el Rey Dragón que nos ha dado años de prosperidad, se jubila. Entre mi hermano y yo, elegirá al más fuerte para que sea su sucesor. Y eso significa, el que tiene la novia guerrera más leal, devota y valiente.

Solo el Templo puede encontrar a mi alma gemela. Una gota de sangre, y tendré mi ADN compatible. Será perfecta. Será perfecta para mí, porque la prueba de ADN nunca falla. Y cuando mi única alma gemela se una a mí, nos sentaremos juntos en el trono y seremos invencibles.

Pero primero, tendrá que pasar las tres pruebas.



Mi humilde opinión:


Wed to the Dragon es una lectura rápida con magia, pasión, aventura y parejas destinadas.

Me gustó que la historia tuviera un trasfondo de fantasía con dragones y una corte. Este mundo fue interesante con la romántica leyenda de una pareja destinada entre un dragón y una humana. Disfruté leer las partes donde la heroína tenía que superar las tres difíciles pruebas del Dragonbonded que solo dragones podían terminar. También el collar mágico que le permitió a Aryan darle consejos a Ruby durante la competencia.

Ruby era valiente y de gran corazón con una vibra Robin Hood que robaba para darle a los pobres. Aryan era un dragón sexy y nerd ya que le gustaban los libros.

El romance fue instantáneo con algunos momentos picantes. No hubo nada que superar con la pareja en cuanto a su matrimonio arreglado. Después de que Ruby le cuenta la verdad sobre ella, se entienden y todo es fácil entre ellos.

Me gustaban las intenciones de Aryan, él quería amor. Encontraría a su pareja destinada o se quedaría solo. Era romántico que creyera en las parejas destinadas y que al final se cumpliera la leyenda encontrando a Ruby me pareció genial.

Creí por un momento que el hermano o la esposa, incluso los reyes se iban a interponer un poco haciendo las cosas algo más interesantes pero no sucedió.

De todas formas la historia fue entretenida pero me quedé con ganas de un libro más extenso y me quedaron preguntas.

Qué sucedió con Daryan y su esposa Nalla después de perder el Dragonbonded ? Por qué el rey tenía prisioneros a viejos dragones? Cumplió Ruby con su promesa a la Shadowfire Wyrm?
Profile Image for Laqua.
352 reviews2 followers
December 17, 2024
Me gustó el planteo de la historia, me gustó el universo que describe, me encantó la protagonista femenina. Astuta y muy, muy ubicada en su realidad, Ruby va resolviendo con lo que tiene lo que se le presenta, según van ocurriendo las cosas. La protagonista estrella y sin dudas, es ella, en esta historia.
El otro sujeto está ahí como para rellenar 😂 Nah, en serio: si sacan a Aryan, no pasa gran cosa; Ruby igual hubiera terminado resolviendo. Me gustó mucho mucho ella, como hacía bastante que no me gustaba una protagonista femenina.
La cosa está en que termina demasiado pronto. Me da la sensación de que nos quedamos a mitad de algo, de que le falta la mejor parte.
Supongo que ahora nunca lo sabré 😥
37 reviews
June 7, 2023
Another sweet, quick fated mates read. Aryan and his brother are vying to become the next dragon king when their father retires, but they first need a queen. Aryans brother has already selected his bride, but Aryan doesn't want to just choose - he wants his one fated mate, even if it means he can't be king. The temple matches him to Ruby, a mere human who signs up to protect her family. The brides then have to complete a series of trials to prove their worth as queen, which throws up interesting difficulties for Ruby, competing as a human against dragon shifters!
Nice quick read and great addition to the series!.

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Profile Image for Callie.
661 reviews29 followers
January 13, 2024
I don’t know, novellas just never do the job for me. 🤷🏻‍♀️

This was super fast. She knows her husband one day before she has to compete in a trial with other brides, and it will decide if he will be the king, or if his brother will.

So in an already short story, a lot of it is the trial where we don’t even get to see the couple have time together.

It had some cool elements, and I always like dragon things! But I think it needed to be longer, and have way more emotion.
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309 reviews13 followers
November 1, 2023
I had high hopes for this one because of the ratings but it was just okay. The Dragon Prince was very soft in personality, in my opinion. His mate, however, was fierce, kind and generous. I would have liked more of Aryan's personality to come through and for it to be stronger and more "dragon-like."

Quick read. I will try a few more of the series since they don't take up much time.
Profile Image for Meagan Grauel.
683 reviews3 followers
July 22, 2025
In terms of the “Arranged Monster Marriages” series, this was not my favorite. This story’s monster is a dragon, who has been holding on to the belief that his fated mate is out there. The FMC is a thief who applies to the arranged marriage program to escape being caught for her crimes and help her family. I liked the fated mates aspect and the strong FMC vibes. But the plot didn’t feel complete and at the end of the story I felt there were a lot of questions left unanswered. The smut in this one also wasn’t anything to write home about. Other than being hairless, there’s nothing impressive about a dragon dick. I feel like there were a lot of missed opportunities there. Anywho - I wouldn’t not recommend this one, but if you were skipping around in this series, I would put this one towards the bottom of the list.
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633 reviews33 followers
July 24, 2024
A nothingburger, sadly. These books are just too short. The MMC is barely present and very 1-dimensional. There is little plot other than a catty sister-in-law. There isn't much conflict in the 'trials' the brides must complete, and the FMC only needed to do two of the 3.
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184 reviews4 followers
April 25, 2024
I absolutely loved this couple and the challenges they faced to be together!
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784 reviews24 followers
November 26, 2025
I’m doing dragon research, so I am taking a chance on a wider selection than I normally would. At least this one was short.
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1,504 reviews
June 16, 2023
Aryan and Daryan are the dragon royals, who may become King of the Dragons after the Dragonbonded trials are done. The winner’s bride picks who is to become King. Daryan chose his dragon bride, Nalla. But Aryan doesn’t just want to choose a dragon bride. He wants his fated mate. The queen of the dragons is ill, their father is getting old, so now is the time for the new king & queen to be Chosen. Aryan is pretty much the last dragon to believe in fated mates. Aryan is fascinated about the ancient stories of the species and spent a lot of time reading those stories growing up and doing research. He gave his blood to the Temple so that he could find his fated mate. He argues this with his parents telling of an ancient legend that one of the things he read was that a dragon had a non-dragon mate then, so he could have one now. That the trials test certain things, not things that pertain only to dragons.

Ruby and the Misfits- she and a group of people who steal from the rich to feed their families and keep them as well as they could. Well the others could leave, but not Ruby because her father, her sister and brother needed her so she hid when the Peacekeepers came- they wrecked the house and beat her father a bit. So, her only recourse was to put her blood in with the Temple so that her family would be taken care of, while she married one of the ‘monsters’. She is chosen as Aryan’s bride. She tells him of what she has done, that only makes her more of what he was looking for. He promises to send the money to her family and talk to the rich families there to fix the problems, that she tells him of. MY HERO!

Although she is worried about the trials, Ruby is more than willing to try to win them. Aryan has a plan to help her through them. I found it ingenious and they are drawn to each other. I do not like his brother or Nalla. Of the other brides participating, I liked Pyra the best. So much happens in the trials. I found myself biting my nails. Ruby is amazing. I knew she would figure things out. I hope that we can find out more about the other girls that participated in the trials and I can’t wait for the next book in the series. I enjoyed the book immensely.

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Profile Image for Alarna.
2,289 reviews
January 29, 2024
it was ok, i think if it was longer and the story could have been expanded but this just felt kinda rushed and i can see what other people where saying about the contest being kinda pointless, the H doesn't care if he's king and they kept emphasising that there where no losers so it felt kinda pointless. it ended really abruptly. :/
Profile Image for Rebecca Grove.
3,492 reviews26 followers
June 21, 2023
Aryan is one of the two son of the dragon king. Tradition has it that the strongest son will become the next king. Since Aryan and his brother are equally strong, the choice will come down to the strongest wife. After bonding, the females go through the DragonBonding Trials and the winner of the two royal brides will determine the next king. Aryan's brother has mated a female dragon from a noble family but Aryan wants to find his fated mate. He hasn't found her among his people so he sent a blood sample to the temple for them to find his match. Just days before the trials, he is matched to a human woman named Ruby. No one believes that she will be able to win the trials but Aryan is happy just to have found his mate.

Ruby is from a poor family who can't make ends meet. She is tired of watching her family and friends be treated like slaves by the richer humans. She has started a group of rebels who rob from the rich to give to the poor. When her group hits a big score, the authorities are after her. she decides to send her blood sample to the temple. She knows if she gets matched her family will be taken care off. She never really wanted to marry a monster but meeting Aryan has her changing her mind.

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Profile Image for Emily Pennington.
20.7k reviews359 followers
June 17, 2023
The Three Trials . . .

Aryan is one of the dragon royals who may become King of the Dragons if his chosen mate can win the Dragonbonded trials. Whichever bride wins the trials will have proven her worthiness and her husband will become the King. His brother Daryan has chosen Nalla from a noble dragon family to be his bride. Aryan instead believes in the old stories about fated mates, a matched soul that many feel is a myth. He gave his blood to the Temple so his DNA could be matched to his fated mate, even if she came from a different species.

Ruby is human and had also given her blood in the Temple in the hope her family would be taken care of if she agreed to marry one of the monsters. Selected as Aryan’s bride, she must now compete in the trials. Ruby is strong, resourceful, and kind, a perfect match for Aryan. She is not certain how she will do in the competition, but her heart is in it and she will do her best to win for Aryan. Will he become the next King?
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300 reviews2 followers
December 3, 2023
I wanted to see her fulfill the promise of setting all prisoners of the king free. I felt that Nalla's exclamation that she can't do that was signifying how hard that would be. Also wanted to see what they did with Nalla intentionally wounding another contestant.
Also gotta say, some of these sound a bit as if authors wrote first chapters for each of MCs, and came back to finish novellas later. Here I felt it more with Aryan. His first chapter his brother and wife are good people and happy together, would be good king and queen. By his return his brother is kind of a dick and Nalla is suddenly spoiled, and Aryan's much more determined to have Ruby win. Aryan also predicts his brother and Nalla will be done with each other within a couple of years. I know how these stories work, and that there needs to be a conflict, but it would've been cool if his own family had his back and weren't assholes.
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Profile Image for Elisa  Castro .
2,590 reviews2 followers
June 14, 2023
true mate

Wed to the Dragon is book five in the series Arranged Monster Mates by author Cara Wydle. This tale is an interesting read. Intriguing and full of moments where your imagination can roam free.
Imagine waiting or wanting to find the one person meant for you. Only your heir to the throne and a different species. Would you let all that stop you? Well this dragon didn’t- his faith and trust is matched when he finds the other half of his soul.
Yet, there’s an obstacle between them- trails and some not so friendly dragons. But just maybe with luck, fate will shine down on them.
Enjoy!!.

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