Publisher's Synopsis
Shipwrecked on a primitive, "Closed" world on the fringes of the Commonwealth, Kitianna Tomar must choose between survival and duty, but the man who finds her has no such qualms. On the run from a powerful political adversary, Alastair Ross is happy to join forces with the odd woman he finds injured and unconscious in the forest on a dark, stormy night, and Kit quickly realizes doing so is her only hope to stay out of trouble. Professionalism and duty vie with a growing attraction to this new world the natives call Earth and the man who saved her life, but when Fleet finally tracks her down, the stars of home beckon...