After watching her husband die on the bridge of the CCS Alexander and being used as bait by Earth's government, Laura Howard has found a second chance at love on a planet light-years from Earth-until she falls, and a head injury erases her time on Tolar.
Mistress Sarah Fairfaxwas playing a dangerous game, for she had sworn to fight back against the injustices done to her people, a vow that had made her an enemy of the formidable Lord Rutledge, and put at risk not only for her freedom, but her guarded heart, as well.