Princess Zara of the Vex Planetary System desperately flees her homeworld to escape a dreadful arranged marriage to an unseen imperial warlord, adopting an unpretentious alias as a civilian medical doctor on a frontier orbital station. Her hilarious blunder arrives when she accidentally diagnoses Consul Draven, the dreaded military leader of the system, with chronic physiological impotence during an emergency physical exam.
To pacify imperial inspectors demanding domestic stability, the mortified consul and the undercover doctor agree to a six-month contract marriage, keeping their true identities strictly concealed. As dangerous pirate raids and station skirmishes ignite genuine romantic sparks between them, they attend a grand diplomatic banquet, only for both covers to detonate simultaneously. The spouses discover that the arranged partners they fought to avoid were standing beside them all along.
