He was promised a human bride—and he wants her.Desperate to escape an arranged marriage to a Tarrkuan, Caylee trades places with another human female who actually wants to leave Earth and marry one of the fearsome aliens.She thinks she's safe, she thinks she's in the clear... until a huge Tarrkuan diplomat named Kazzon discovers her deception and takes her into custody.Now she's a prisoner of the very aliens from whom she was trying to hide.And that alien who captured her?He's been promised a human bride—and he plans to marry her.No matter how fiercely she protests.