Much to the surprise of Zola Montgomery, the president has invited her to a meeting about a job offer. Job offer? She has no intention of leaving her present position, but one could not refuse a presidential request...

At the meeting, the president reveals his plans for Earth to send a spaceship and a special team he dubbed SET, Stardust Emergency Taskforce, to deal with emergencies that crop up on other planets. She is chosen to head the medical trauma team—a team she has to pull together on very short notice. The offer was too tempting to refuse.

Never in her wildest dreams could she have guessed her reactions to meeting Clarke Johnson—a mysterious surgeon she had selected for her team. A man she has trouble resisting even if he is a strange individual...