title: Collateral Trade
author: Smith, Candace
description: Drifting helplessly in space, short of supplies, Sharrell and many of the other women are sold to aliens by their unscrupulous spaceship captain in return for the means to settle on an inhabitable planet. Worse, it quickly becomes clear that the aliens want the women to become their mates, and the alien families invariably consist of one set of twin males and one female who is expected to be submissive and to endure the dominant and often painful demands of her two husbands. It had been that way for centuries. The females of that planet always gave birth to one set of male twins followed by one girl, and it should have continued without a problem. A rare natural occurrence had altered the usual course of events, and the birth of a second set of male twins in each family had led to the shortage of mates, an unthinkable situation for the male twins and for their insatiable sex-drives. The Earth girls, however, are not prepared to simply accept the situation…An erotic sci-fi romance, the last in the "Atlantis" series by Candace Smith following "Miranda's Destiny", "Harvesting Rue", "Slip-Stream" and "Cassandra's Pirate".