Esmer is almost thirty and stuck. She's the eldest daughter, and everyone depends on her for financial support, for household help, and for emotional labor, but no one is willing to treat her like an adult. When her friend and coworker, Chelsea, suggests she sign up for the Human Extraterrestrial Liasons Program (H.E.L.P.), Esmer is skeptical. Her parent's ideas about dating are straight out of the 1800s, but she's not going to let Chelsea suffer a weird dating app alone. What she doesn't expect is to meet Danth, the most alien of aliens whose mind she falls for completely. It seems like a perfect match, but both Esmer and Danth each come with their own hang ups. Finding their fate among the stars may take a little more work and understanding than they ever imagined. Planet WLN269 Needs Women is a new shared world series that imagines what it would be like if human woman decided to leave behind one male loneliness epidemic to solve another on a planet in the Andromeda Galaxy. All stories feature low-stakes alien-human romance stories, lots of steam, and a guaranteed Happily Ever After.