Their Bartered Bride

Their Bartered Bride is one of Marla Monroe’s contemporary romance novels in her menage subgenre, working in the multi partner romance territory she has been writing in successfully for years. The bartered bride premise hints at the marriage of convenience or arrangement based romance setup that Monroe has used in some of her work, with the heroine entering an arrangement with multiple male partners under specific practical circumstances that the wider novel works through.

Monroe writes the kind of erotic romance that does not waste time. Her plots move, her heat scenes are frequent and explicit, and her characters spend less time in self doubt than the contemporary romance mainstream often does. The menage subgenre has its own rules and conventions, and Monroe has been writing inside those conventions long enough to know when to follow them and when to push them.

For readers who enjoy menage romance from authors like Sophie Oak, Lexi Blake, or Anitra Lynn McLeod, Monroe is squarely in the same neighborhood. Her catalogue is large and most of her books work as standalones even when they share a wider universe. Their Bartered Bride is a comfortable entry into her catalogue.