In 3000 A.D. the world as we know it is long gone. War has left Earth decimated. Thrown back to medieval times, women are second class citizens and the government is corrupt. To top it all off, the doorways to different planets have been hacked into by Outlanders that kidnap human women for wives.
 

Freya Kirkland was lucky to get a job as a tour guide after her job she had in the military during the war. Trying to keep a low profile, she’s more than stunned when she is kidnapped by an Outlander that means to make her his wife. He had watched and studied her for over a year, knowing that she would be the perfect wife for him.

 She fights against being taken by Aries D’Halen, a 6’6” hunk she later learns is the Prince of Gaian.

When Freya is badly injured  in an attack on Aries’ ship, she learns just how deeply she and Aries are tied to each other. That doesn’t mean she isn’t still mad at him kidnapping her, and it doesn’t mean she’ll just agree with everything he says. (Those two remind me of two cats over a clothes line.)

But truths she wasn’t supposed to ever learn come to light and Freya wonders who’s side she should fight on. And will it cost her the man she loves all the way to her soul?

Freya Kirkland has the soul of a fighter, always trying to do the right thing. Aries D’Halen might have gone about procuring his wife in the wrong way, but it is easy to see that he has deep feelings for her early in the relationship. The gradual change in Freya makes you want to cheer for Aries as he slowly, persistently works to get her to trust him and eventually love him. Marley Matthews went the right way in working these two star-crossed lovers together. Details that are normally overlooked are fit into place like pieces of a puzzle. Though it might be a short story, there is nothing lacking from the characters to the colorful planet of Gaian. And the hunk of the story- six foot six—now that’s my kind of man!