Lieutenant Denali te Mikah's opportunities to visit home are few and far between since choosing space over joining the ranks of the Kalari Jewels, as prized for their rarity as for their sensuous skills. She is less than pleased when her furlough is interrupted by a renegade clan that seizes the opportunity to claim a shared mate of their own. Denali is no man's prey. Research scientists Nealan and Zeth Lan Caligan never expected to find their bondmate, the one woman meant for them to share in every way, on the run on a desert planet far from their homeworld. Even the danger on her trail can't cool the fires of the mating heat that binds the bond-brothers of Geminus with their glorious warrior woman. Now the Black Moon Clan's most deadly Jewel must keep her men safe from the vengeful clansmen who are willing to kill to keep her and the secret that would cost them their lives.