Captain Nora Bradley has full intention of keeping her relationship with former classmate, and now First Officer, Robert Smith, purely professional. When she hires him, the two, along with a crew of top professionals in their fields, embark on a journey into regions of space not yet charted. Along the way, the crew endures a space flu that puts the entire ship in a fevered frenzy, alien races that change the crews’ perceptions of size, compatibility, and companionship, and hitchhiking shape-shifters that will do just about anything to keep their sensuous human forms. As the crew endures, Nora and Robert can’t help but profess their love for one another . . . but can their love survive a mix-up with the shape-shifters, the unexpected takeover of their ship, and intergalactic war?