If I Pay Thee Not in Gold
By: by Piers Anthony and Mercedes Lackey.
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Baen Books
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Riverdale, N.Y., USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780671721756
Subjects: Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Genres: Fantasy fiction.
Description: In the Age of the Mazonians women rule through magic—and men suffer what they must.  Magical creations only last for a single day (magical food is great for dieting), but that is quite long enough for casting a giant wet blanket (if you're feeling kind) over a would be rampaging male—or a block of granite (if you're not).  No uppity males in Mazonia indeed!

But then as now some people rise above what they've been taught.  One such is Xylina; somehow she has always understood that being of the wrong gender, or even lacking magical power, is no reason for stripping a human being of dignity.  How ironic, then, that the Queen has ordained in order to avoid execution Xylina must use her magic to publicly conquer the most glorious male Mazonia has ever seen—and how doubly so that together he and Xylina will transform their world.
Notes: A Baen books original.
Cover art by Darrell K. Sweet.