A girl from a world on the edge of human colonized space attempts to salvage the wreckage of a downed deep space fighter, only to discover she's got the living pilot on her hands. She's drawn into helping her handsome enemy, with his smiling eyes and voice like liquid sugar, even as her life crumbles around her.
Fay McDermott is the nom de plume for two women who have been writing for years together but only recently decided to stop being chickens and become published authors instead.