Abby is a nurse who works at District Eleven General as the shift-lead in the children’s ward. The job took an emotional toll on her, but she loved the kids and wanted to bring some light into their lives in whatever little way she could. She was a natural with the children. One of the new male nurses was nervous around her, requested her help with a crying child, then asked her for a date, and she had to gently turn him down. She hoped this wouldn’t make things awkward. A blonde woman who had been in the ward watching was still there when Abby came back. When Abby asked if she was there for a patient, she said she was there to see Abigail Woodley. When Tory Hearst, spokesperson for the IEP, tells Abby about the Intergalactic Exchange Program desperately in need of nurses to help off-planet, she decides to give it a try.
Kain is the Great Warrior leader of Raider, one of the least desirable planets yet in need of help. Kain sees how happy his friends, crown prince Niall Hollander and his wife Brittany, are and wants a child for his own. When the IEP could not match all of the requirements on his list, he offers to triple the amount of money he would pay. With so much money involved, the agency gladly ignored the nurse contract in favor of the breeding contract without informing Abby, and Kain was able to purchase Abby’s contract to be his bride for a one-year-period and to be the “Life Giver” to his child. As she signed the contract, however, she thought she saw words printed there that had not been before – but at a second look, the area was plain white paper again. Her human eyes couldn’t see that in that “white space” were the words saying she would marry and produce a child with Kain! Will they ever discuss this and straighten out the details so neither of them think the other has betrayed them? She can leave Raider after the year is up, but now there are some important additional details she isn’t aware of. Perhaps if they talked, she may have discovered he wants her permanently in his life and to have a family with her. Except that at the moment, each of them thinking the other had lied, he angrily slammed out of the building, telling his second-in-command, Dordus, to clean up this mess and that she better not be here by the time he returns! What will happen to her now? Where will she go?
This was a really good story that pulls the reader in quickly as the tension rises. Neither of them knew about the contract switch so that IEP increase their profit. Each had agreed to something then thought the other was responsible for misleading them when it wasn’t what they signed on for. And it looks like pride and anger may keep this mystery from getting solved. Grab your copy and see what it takes to find out the truth and how to fix it.