Love seems to elude Brooke. But, Mark the Bastard was the closest. Now she wanted him to get a flesh-eating disease and disappear forever. What did she expect? She wasn’t normal. A genius engineer that worked all the time on a high-tech project and her boss told her today she must tell a man she didn’t like how her father invented a new technology. She discovers the man she didn't like is bonded to her in ways even he couldn't know. Brooke’s the bait to use him and save an alien Empire and the Earth from destruction.