Ambassador Janel is proud to have finally brokered an alliance with the powerful Haraden.  What cinched the deal?  The Haraden soldiers want brides.  Since war ravaged her planet’s male population they actually have a surplus of women looking for husbands.  It seems like a win-win. General Kordan, the austere Haraden negotiator Janel spent days wearing down, approaches her out of the blue.  She’s not married—and he has his eyes on her.  For some reason, she feels compelled to go to him.    Unfortunately her timing for a visit to a Haraden home world could not have been worse.  Was she being courted or confiscated?  From the author of Indentured Bride!

Ex-soldier Lenora is determined to escape an alien slave colony no matter what the cost.  Her disobedience angers her male alien overseers, who are trying to breed humans so they can intermarry with them.  Lenora, and willful women like her, are sent to the Bride Games.  If they win they will be granted their freedom.  If they lose they must accept marriage to an alien nobleman.   Alien Viceroy Lysanter wants no part of these hideous games.  Their lack of females caused them to wage a brutal war with Earth that ended horribly for both races.  He knows the humans despise his kind, and that females are particularly fearful.  When the games organizer offers him a slave named Lenora as a bride he’s initially repulsed by the idea.  Then he realizes that her military programming has left her with an irrational fear of his kind that causes her to take dangerous risks.  Lenora has suffered in her desperation to escape them.  Perhaps, if he can convince her to accept him, he can give her a better life?  Lysanter becomes determined to court Lenora throughout the games with the goal of persuading her to forfeit.   A riveting erotic one-shot novella by the author of Alien’s Bride!