Days after their wedding, newlywed Chief Scientist Zham J'Taroo had to leave his husband Bren and return to active duty on Trenadier Station, a military station monitoring the technological progress of a planet called Solutan III. About three month's later, when Bren's security clearance is finally granted, the transport ship Ketinya transports him to the remote outpost. Their story picks up shortly before Bren's arrival and his new life with his husband on the station.