Futuristic Romantic Fiction, Awards and Ratings: Affaire de Coeur - Six StarsRomantic Times - Four StarsRomantic Times - Finalist for Best Electronic BookScribes World - Four 1/2 StarsKathy's Fave and Raves - Four Thumbs UpAbout.com Romance Fiction - Four HeartsThe Belles and Beaux of Romance - Five StarsSimplyEbooks - Four StarsSime Gen - Five StarsTimeless Tales Reviews - Four StarsAmazon.com - Average customer rating is Five Stars Reuel Shatar, the handsome Governor of Pyrali and its three moons, is noble to his galactic core and duty bound to produce the next ruler of the Alliance. He chooses to blackmail a beautiful dissident into marriage or have the House of Shatar fall into disgrace. Christa Kirklan is a stubborn Earthling, unpredictable as a cosmic storm. Faced with exile to a frigid asteroid for her treasonous dialogue, or marriage to the man who represents everything she hates, Christa reluctantly chooses marriage. What better arena to voice her discontentment with the empires prejudice and archaic social culture than the Alliance's own dais? What better way to raise her people from outcasts to noble citizens than to put an Earthling on the future throne of the galaxy? Pyrali watches as Lord Shatar pledges his allegiance to an alien, while Christa vows to find the real reason behind Reuel's scheme. United in a political union, forged by a man's hidden shame and a woman's quest for freedom, the Alliance trembles under the final test of their love.