Marked Brides: Six Alpha Shifter Romances (Brides of Terra Arcus) Paperback – November 24, 2020

Six of my favorite authors have joined together for this anthology! The six stories in this book takes place on planet Terra Arcus. Each story reads as a stand-alone with the central theme of each male alien shifter needs securing a female human mate.Each of the characters captured my heart and kept me on the edge of my seat with the action. I’m normally not a fan of alien stories and this book changed my mind. I loved all the aliens and their land, their laws, their way of life. I want more!!!!!Versoth by Maren Smith (my one-click author) - Loved this story! What a concept of this kind of shifters. Three men to take care of and love one woman.Mate of the Mamuut by Morganna Williams – This is a sweet and sensual storyline. Earth men don't find Shiloh attractive, hoping a man from another planet will, she moves to Terra Arcus.Wildcat by Delta James (my one-click author)- This character is an Uber-Alpha male, not willing to find his mate the way other are willing. He takes charge to find a mate as strong as he. She is very unsure and unwilling to be a mate, a submissive, until she realizes this is exactly what she wants in life.A Polar Hope by Pepper North (my one-click author)- This is another of my favorite authors. Losing her job and needing a change, will Terra Arcus be what her heart needs? I love this story.Daddy’s Stowaway by Allysa Hart – This a sweet and sexy story with characters easy to love. Sneaking aboard the spaceship may be irrational, but other choice does a girl have?Their Fated Mate by Lesley Clark. Auctioned off, bought, and contract signed not by one but two men. What a sexy story. Has all the feels.These six authors are such fabulous storytellers. The characters captured my heart and I could not put the book down. I was sorry to read the last page. I do hope these authors will consider writing more about Terra Arcus.

I enjoyed reading this book, which is a compilation of six stories by six different authors. They all feature shifter males and human females. The stories are all interrelated in that they take place on another planet that Earth sent colonizers to generations ago. The planet was similar to Earth in atmosphere, vegetation, and in other ways, but somehow, over time, the colonists were changed into shifters and they didn't have many fertile women. I should say that it appears that humans really messed up Earth, which is why the colonists were sent out in the first place. So now women are volunteering to go to the new planet to be with these guys and have their kids, in exchange for their families being set for life with food and money (not sure about this). The women don't know that the guys are all shifters and they don't know that they'll actually be sold at auction on the new planet. That's the basic premise of all the stories. I liked that the stories featured some shifters you don't see too much, such as gator (or was it croc, as the FMC in this story used both names for the shifters), mammoth and saber-tooth tiger, as well as wolf, panther and polar bear. The main characters in all the stories did experience the instant attraction of mates, except in the first one. What I didn't like so much was the writing style of the first story. It kept jumping back and forth between the FMC remembering what's happened to her down the road with her shifter mates and what's currently happening to her. That was just distracting, you get into what's occurring between her and the MMCs, then within a paragraph or two, she's remembering what's happened further down the road. I also didn't like that in some of the stories, the human women had to be changed into whatever the shifter was. This is just personal preference as I don't like shifter stories where the human FMC has to be changed into a shifter in order to be with the shifter MMC. Be advised that there is a menage story and one MMF story. There was also one story with a "daddy" theme (the one with the panther shifter I think), I have decided I don't like that genre as I just don't get it. There were some grammatical errors in each story.