To secure curative medicine for her critically ill grandmother, Madeleine signs an otherworldly contract binding her to rehabilitate Silas Thorne, a bloodthirsty galactic warlord marked for destruction. Over a decade of war, she stands by his side, civilizing his brutal nature and becoming his wife, until front-page tabloids document his clandestine betrayal with her closest confidante.
Devastated, Madeleine invokes her emergency termination clause to abandon the empire, awakening in a modern metropolitan hospital room beside her grandmother. But before she can process her freedom, Silas materializes in the emergency lobby, having traded his supreme warlord dominion across time to track down the only woman who tamed him.
