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?