It's been 7 years since the the alien invasion that took Charlotte Ghallager's parents and changed her life forever. 7 years of struggling to look after her younger brother and doing everything she could do keep them safe and unnoticed by the Others, or anything else threatening . A chance encounter on a routine scavaging mission causes her life to change in ways she never could have imagined. And maybe, just maybe, it would be for the better Andivarr was doing a favor for his little sister and her mate when his entire world was flipped on its head. Waking up alone and injured on a strange planet with little recollection of what had happened, was not they way he had seen the routine package delivery going. Coming face to face with a small and fierce native female determined to help him was another unexpected, though welcome suprise. He had no way of knowing how important that first encounter would become.