He will be lord of his own solar system, but he can't claim the homeworld until he takes a bride. He needs the right mate to win his mating rings, but choosing one female from among the neighboring systems while slighting the others could start an interstellar incident - and this ex-mercenary starship captain has finally had enough of war. Where in the universe can a runaway cyborg prince find a naive female willing to risk her life on the dangerous frontiers of space?