Six years ago Sonja Deems had to leave her sisters behind when slavers forced them into the illegal Gaian marriage meets at the Ares Five Prison colony. Now she's back to retrieve them and is willing to do anything, even marry one of the prisoners to get access to them.

Sonja figures she can get in and out of the prison on her own but she doesn't count on Roan Dumas being the man who marries. Roan is someone who can scheme even better than she can and he might be the one man difficult for Sonja to leave behind.