Can love alone save the day? Award-winning author Linnea Sinclair returns with a vibrant interstellar thriller of romance and adventure in which two lovers are tested in the crucible of deep space, where there are onlyBefore her court-martial, Captain Chasidah Chaz Bergren was the pride of the Sixth Fleet. Now shes a fugitive from the justice of a corrupt Empire. Along with her lover, the former monk, mercenary, and telepath Gabriel Ross Sullivan, Chaz hoped to leave the past light-years behinduntil the news of her brother Thads arrest and upcoming execution for treason. Its a ploy by Sullys cousin Hayden Burke to force them out of hiding, and it works.With a killer targeting human females and a renegade gen lab breeding jukor war machines, Chaz and Sully already had their hands full of treachery, betrayalnot to mention each other. Throw in Chazs Imperial ex-husband, Admiral Philip Guthrie, and a Kyi-Ragkiril mentor out to seduce Sully, and not just loyalties but lives are at stake. For when Sully makes a fateful choice, changing their relationship forever, Chaz must also choosebetween what duty demands and what her heart tells her she must do.From the Paperback edition.