Ubutu Cleona of the cat-shifting Ubutu Clan has had better days. Her cargo is gone, the payment turns out to be counterfeit, and she's missed the call to gather the clan issued more than two weeks ago. Her grandfather, who was completely against her having her own space transport, is going to have a field day with her. Life just can't get any worse. Well, yes it can if you meet your true-mate and he's a somber, dark, completely opposite of you Solarian that smells so good you just can keep your hands off of him. Marohi Kawana has known since the death of his mate there would be no other for him. Solarians only mate once and his is gone. Until a beautiful, blonde, cat-shifting, skimpily-clad woman walks up and wraps herself around him. Nothing in Marohi's life has prepared him for the sometimes-sarcastic, incredibly independent, and always alluring Ubutu Cleona. Enter an enemy who is bent on the destruction of their families, the Union of Planets, and anything else that gets in his way and things just take a downward spiral. Cleona and Marohi find themselves in the middle of a battle that began before either of them was even born. A battle they intend to finish once and for all.