When a street gang accosts Elle Carter on her way home from work, pregnant and alone, she turns toward a handsome stranger for help. She doesn’t expect him to carry her off like some ancient damsel in distress. When the Fates tell Daffyd that Elle is his match, he jumps at the chance to save her. It is his job, after all. After rescuing her from her assailants, he rushes her to his home world, Mikkant. He must get her to a healer before complications of premature labor kills both mother and child.