One lonely night two scared children reach out to make a connection that will change their lives forever. Hankura Narcaza is the Aledan boy and Michelle Marlow is the little girl on Earth who claims his heart and soul through their psionic connection. This prequel leads up to the beginning of book one of the series and end in a cliffhanger though it reveals events previously mentioned only briefly in book one of the Aledan series.

When Michelle Marlow, a latent telepath, first touched Hankura Narcaza's mind when they were children, he barely knew what psi-mates were. But as an adult he could no longer deny their connection. When she is nearly killed in a street fight on the dystopian Earth of the distant future, Hankura knows he must go there and find her for his soul to ever know peace, no matter that it could very well cost him his life Compelled by his family to return to Aledus, Hankura takes Michell with him. Life on Aledus is complicated by family dynamics and discriminatory laws against psions. Life on Aledus for the psi-mates is more difficult than they ever dreamed. (NO CLIFF HANGER!)

Hankura and Chelle continue their life together joining the crew of the Searching Star, an exploration ship with a mission to find new worlds for colonization and reconnect with lost colonies. Their lives are on an intersecting course with the horse clans of Oltarin a lost colony in the midsts of a 500 year old blood feud primarily between the mountain clans and the lake clans. Their society devolved from space faring into rival clans who rode horses and fought each other with swords, knives, and crossbows. On his way to send the message from the ancient shuttle, Brandt McKell, son of the Mountain clans' chieftain rides to help a lone rider being chased by four renegades. He can hardly believe his luck when that rider turns out to be the daughter of the Lake clans' chieftain—-his deadly enemy. It's not exactly love at first sight, but sparks fly and passion ignites. It's up to the crew of the Searching Star to determine if these people can settle their differences and claim their rightful place in the Federation.

What if you could share love in its purest form mind to mind all in the span of a thought? What if you could feel what they feel when you touch them and know beyond all doubt that you are loved as well? What if someone took that person from you and did unspeakable thing to hurt them—-and you felt all that pain as though it were your own? What would you do to make it stop? How do you go on with your life afterward? Hankura and Chelle are Psion Mates who share a telepathic bond. He is Chief Medical Officer and Chelle is a master Med-tech on the Searching Star exploration ship. The pair are telepaths that share a passionate, loving relationship. The ship is captured by a Tregan invaders of Zevus Mar when it locks into orbit. The takeover is violent and bloody. Hankura must surrender or watch them kill his wife. He feels her anguish through their telepathic bond when she is raped repeatedly and tortured. He vows revenge, watching and waiting for his chance. He makes his break forced to kill every Tregan soldier who gets in his way. When it’s over, the memories still haunt them causing them to retreat from each other’s pain. Is love enough to bring them back together?

The story opens with the introduction of Captain Otian and his crew, forced to land on the backwater planet of Oltarin because of a blown star drive with no funds to replace it. Enter Hankura, who needs passage for himself and his family to Velran to help their son who's been in a catatonic state since his psionic powers started dawning. No other starship will take them because their children are both dawning psions. Otian and his crew are leery but agree to take the chance in exchange for funds to repair their ship. Meanwhile, their friend Delmran from Hankura's childhood with whom they served on the Searching Star arrives on Velran to become Security Chief of the Federation Embassy there. On arrival, Delmran meet Lishad, a covert agent for the Federation operating as the Emperor's mistress. As soon as he shakes her hand there is an instant attraction which Lishad tries to deny, so Delmran backs off. But, Lishad is not unaffected as she tries to make him believe and trying to hide her feelings makes Delmran believe she is a double agent. Will Jamerin get the help he needs? Why are the Tregans so interested in Hankura's family? Can Delmran trust Lishaad to help protect them?

Orin Hart was genetically engineered to be a super soldier his embryo implanted in an unwilling host mother who escaped the Tregan breeding program before he was born. She carried him to term and raised him with her husband to be a farmer, loving him as though he were their own naturally conceived offspring. They escaped when the Tregans came for him. Already a full grown man, they tried to make him a killer. Orin Hart never wanted to kill anyone until he saw how they tortured and murdered innocent people on the colonial worlds they raided. Only when they were about to murder an unarmed woman and a little boy did he finally raise his rifle, but he killed them instead. The woman and boy got away in a damaged hovercraft. Orin followed because he knew they wouldn't get far. He didn't know what kind of future he would have after what he had done. Now he was free, with nothing left to lose. There was one good think he could do with however long he had left. He could make sure the woman and boy would survived after what he'd done to save them. Would they accept his help? After all, he wore the same uniform as the other men who were trying to kill them? It wouldn't stop him from trying.

Jamerin Narcaza was the strongest human psion alive. They called him the Promised One; his mission is to free the Psions of Aledus. Only the Wholaskans of Velran were strong enough to control him, so they taught him to control himself by following the strict Psion Code of Ethics. Because he revered the Wholaskans Jamerin adhered to those principals until he met her. Parei was his psi-mate, and they were going to take her away. That's when he went against everything he had been taught to control his parents' minds and make them let Parei stay. How could a boy so bad be destined to perform a task so honorable? Can the Wholaskan's reform him where his parents can't? Will he destroy their minds like his grandmother nearly had years before he was born. Can he really free the minds of Aledus? Author Warning: \\Mild Language\\Explicit Sex Scenes\\Intended for Adults Only.

Ajha Lann, a dawning psion grew up under the wing of an older girl. Together they scrounged for food and avoided capture by the gangers in the ruins of Farringay. Left on her own when Mikki is captured by gangers, the voices in her head seemed to get louder but one presence is stronger than the others. It gives her hope of something better for her future. Calan Narcaza’s mother, the former Michelle Marlow was born in the ruins Farringay outside the Starport Compound. Little had changed since his father went to Earth to find Chelle and claim her as his mate. Calan knows the dangers, but he has felt Ajha Lann reaching out to him from several years. He knew that for her to reach him over such interstellar distance could only mean that she was his psion mate. His brother Jamerin brings Calan to Earth in his starship, though he is skeptical about leaving his baby brother on his own. Then they find a cyborg in stasis at the industrial complex that Calan bought to give refuge to the people struggling to survive in the city ruins. They wake him. Calan and cyborg Rax Ven become allies building the Refuge together and facing off with the Overlords and gangers in a final showdown.