Imprisoned on false charges, I find myself facing years in the worldship’s brig. But when the Darrvasons, a race of powerful aliens, demand a sample of human women to examine, I’m offered up as a patient. In exchange for my cooperation, I’ll be released from the brig, the false charges dropped. An alien named Zahhn examines me, and it's the most embarrassing yet thrilling two hours of my life. I think I’ll never see him again… but when I’m later implicated in a traitorous plot and returned to the brig, my only escape is to become a Darrvason’s bride. To my utter shock, I’m assigned to the arrogant Dr. Zahhn.