Serena is a 6'2" female wrestler. Following a match with her arch rival Olga she meets two rather short individuals who fire a stun gun at her. When she next awakens she finds herself on a spaceship travelling to another planet together with other Earth women.

They have been abducted to become mates for Volarn's menfolk as most of the planet's women were rendered infertile by a mysterious energy force during a recent war on the planet.

Needless to say Serena is not totally happy with this predicament despite being paired with King Rhamus and she organises an escape attempt. This is not successful so she decides to use her position to make life easier for the other abducted women, all the time harbouring a desire to return to Earth, but also becoming romantically involved with the Volarnian King.

This is most definitely a romance in SF clothing. The basic story of alien abduction for mates is by no means an original premise, but in terms of romance I guess this isn't necessarily a bad thing - a little familiarity in the plot allows the romance elements to shine.

And there are plenty of those; it's a bit boy-meets-girl, girl-hates-boy/boy-hates-girl, girl-boy become enamoured with each other (in this case with help from a mystical mate choosing ceremony), and then events seem to come between them leaving them to struggle to refind each other.

This book is fairly well written; the characters are believable, the setting consistent and reasonable fleshed out. Where it does have a downside is the unoriginal entry into the story. The romance elements are certainly to the fore - aided by some passionate lovemaking scenes (although they are handled form the side of passion rather than explicit and gratutitous detail).

This is not my normal kind of sf. And I'm probably not the best judge of it, to be honest (and hence the lack of a grade), but if you like a bit of romance as well as some good science fiction then it's not a bad mix (although slanted towartds the romance).

If you like your sf traditional, concept driven and full of science then it's not for you, but then again you wouldn't have got past the SF Romance tag if think this way.

And as my wife is 6'2" tall I did find parts of this kind of appropriate.

Synopsis
When Serena awakes, after a close and unpleasant encounter with some sort of stun gun, she very quickly learns that resistance is futile and escape only a yearned for dream. She, and the other Earth women Serena meets aboard ship with her, have been captured by the Moyds, interstellar merchants ...their mission, to procure fertile wives for the men of Volarn, where their race is endangered due to the wide-spread sterility of their own women. Learning this is at least some relief to the captured women, but Serena is disgusted to realize that they are nothing in these men's eyes but baby makers. Regardless, she knows she has no choice but to face the fate that awaits her with as much dignity as she can muster.

Once they arrive on Volarn, Serena learns that her assessment has not been entirely accurate. Using their power crystals in the Tarthra Ritual, the warriors approach the women with their crystals to find the mate most suited to them...a woman to love who can love them. Serena is chosen to become King Rhamus' queen, but, just as she feels herself weakening to Rhamus' romantic, passionate nature, Rhamus' enemy, Xarath, abducts her.