When Astra meets a mysterious, handsome stranger at a ball in honor of her father's visiting dignitaries, she lives in the moment. A lifetime of sheltering makes her reckless. The sexy stranger makes her long for something... more. Unfortunately more leaves her in a delicate condition. And her handsome stranger turns out to be the very Prefect her father needs an alliance with.

Galen is taken with the beautiful daughter of Stratan's leader, but Astra is destined for a strategically important merger with a neighboring territory. The fate of the alliance Galen came to form with this planet could rest with his ability to control his wayward feelings.

Astra's pull, however, is more than Galen wants to resist. Now he just has to convince her father she's more than an alliance, and he's the perfect one for her...