Queen Charlotte Karlov only had an option if she wanted her people to survive. She would have to surrender to the amazon army that invaded her lands, make peace with them, and hopefully the future wouldn't be as bad as she feared.
It didn't seem to, at first. The amazons were willing to let her remain as governor of the region if her armies surrendered without further conflict, though there would be conditions. She would have a guard made of amazons, she would have several amazons in a position of power in her ruling body, and the army would remain until the loyalty of the region could be assured. Those conditions were easily fulfilled.
The last was that Charlotte had to birth an amazon heir, had to have an amazon consort. Three actually. General Ariadne meant for her to be a prize for her best soldiers, the three amazons that she felt deserved such a reward: Iris, a gorgeous blonde that possessed a cutting smile, Dorothea, an exotic woman from the southern regions of the continent, and Grigoria, who seemed to be the perfect soldier.
It was humiliating, to go from being a queen to a prize offered to a trio of soldiers that helped conquer her land, but Charlotte would bear the humiliation if that meant her people were safe. She just didn't expect to fall in love with her new consorts.