Her almost failed escape makes her dependent on a stranger named Joshua for survival, but if he learns what she is, he could sell her back to the slavers for a fortune. To buy his help she tries to ply her trade to make him fall in love with her, but his heart stubbornly belongs to some silly mystery princess he's been searching for, said she calls out to him from the dark of every night.

Just her luck, of all the testosterone poisoned males in the galaxy, she gets stuck with the only guy who could tell her no. And thus begins her battle for Joshua's heart, a phantom princess in his mind versus a real woman who has been forced to play this deadly game.