Kidnapped from Earth by an alien warrior when she visits her uncle, Summer Mills is terrified she will never be able to return home. Her alien captors are using human females as breeding stock and her only chance to return to Earth is Ke'lar, the one Hir warrior willing to stand between her and his own kind. Returning this human female home won't be easy and Ke'lar knows by this act of defiance he is throwing his own chances at a lifemate away. Both his family's enemies and his own clan have pledged to reclaim the woman he has stolen, the only woman he will ever love . . .