Federation pop icon Evelyn boards an interstellar charity flight only to crash on a desolate junk planet following an alien swarm ambush. Pulling her from the burning wreckage is Carlisle, a disgraced aristocratic warrior whose erratic biological mutations calm only when he breathes her rare genetic scent.
As insectoid hives overrun their outpost, Evelyn decodes an heirloom pendant proving she is the rightful heir to an ancient planetary defense grid. Together, she and Carlisle navigate deadly minefields and return to high society, staging a daring political trap to expose disguised alien parasites controlling the federation senate.
