He escaped the Hatti Clanship, but will he die alone on this foreign planet?
Master Healer Lateef D’Oro regrets accepting his friend’s invitation to a state dinner with the mysterious Hatti race. He hoped to persuade the fierce, food obsessed warriors to join the Beryllian Alliance in their fight against the Falgaran Empire. Instead he is running for his life after being tricked into violating a Hatti taboo.
Young widow Danielle ‘Dani’ Hamilton is hiding from life in the small mountain town of Folly Springs, Colorado. But when she finds an injured hiker, who is obviously unprepared for the terrain miles away from the nearest trail, she has to take him in. No matter what her friends think. Just until he can get a ride home.
Lateef knows that Dani is the woman for him, but he can’t tell her who he really is. Her planet isn’t ready to know they aren’t alone in the universe.
Dani doesn’t want to admit that Lateef makes her want…more.
But neither one of them expects a team of Hatti warriors to follow Lateef’s trail to her front door.