When Jexx finds out the man she's just had fantastic sex with is one of the legendary Imperial were-panthers, she's impressed and flattered. But when he tells her he's decided to claim her as his bond-mate, she's less than thrilled. She's not in the market for a bossy male to order her around. They've got more than just technical problems to work out if they're both going to make it back to Earth in one piece.