The pandemic decimated humanity.Almost all of the world's men are gone. It took a single catastrophe. The pandemic wiped out most of the population early in the twenty-first century. From the wreckage an asexual, matriarchal society flourished and men live separately to women. Mia conceals a secret. Unlike most women, she burns with a desire for one man, at a time when such feelings are taboo. Rayfe is a smoldering, sexy sweet-talker but is he sincere?. He works in the only brothel that caters for heterosexual women, deviants like Mia. Dr Mia Silwood is a science prodigy, at the top of her field and a brilliant thinker of her time. A low birthrate threatens humanity's future and her discoveries could save us from extinction. But she will have no influence if exposed as a deviant. And there are powerful women with vested interests in Mia’s work Must she choose between her career or her love for a man? A forbidden love romance story in a dystopian Matriarchy.