This edition is no longer available. Lark Zaccaro and Derek Carlson were partners and friends. Lark wanted more. Then someone at the Intergalactic Investigations Bureau sold them out to enemy aliens. Lark was forced to abandon Derek to the enemy, and Derek bought the IIB's story that Lark betrayed them all. When Lark's deep cover mission and Derek's new job in search-and-rescue collide, the desire simmering between them explodes. Lark needs Derek's help to escape a new enemy, and Derek needs to discover the truth about what really happened on that alien planet. Can they overcome lies and betrayal and find the love and comfort they seek, or will their past forever keep them apart? CONTENT ADVISORY: This title contains scenes of dubious consent.

Several months after confessing his love for Lark, his former partner at the Intergalactic Investigations Bureau, Derek Carlson is hired to extract a sniper from the Kraxnafton prison on Lithusia. He hopes the mission will allow him to uncover the identity of the traitor responsible for his own imprisonment. Lark is certain the mission is a setup, but he won't let Derek return to Lithusia alone. Derek is his now, and nothing is going to tear them apart—not a sniper out only for herself, not the IIB, not even the Kraxnafton torturers. Derek's judgment is clouded by dark memories, and Lark must decide whom he can trust. The wrong choice would be fatal for both of them. Read the beginning of Lark and Derek's story in Galactic Betrayal 1: Abandoned.