Gene Driven - soldier. To the bone. He vowed to protect nine planets in a galaxy that ninety thousand years ago humans chose as their home. Gene lives only to win the war. Once he fell in love with a woman, but she cost him sanity, eyes and hearts. Gene tried to forget every moment he spent with her. Until she came back into his life. Maeve is a woman. The same woman. And she came back to marry Gene Driven. Maeve wants the same thing that he wants - the end of the war that has wounded everyone. She knows secrets that will either help him win or destroy them both. The strongest love is tempered in fire.