Annabelle escaped one prison only to land in the custody of the alien officer ordered to deliver her to another.Former nurse Annabelle has already lost her career, her freedom, and nearly everyone she loves. Now she is locked aboard a Xenonian military ship, separated from her friends and headed toward a future she wants no part of.Erich is the disciplined second-in-command responsible for keeping her contained. Annabelle finds him arrogant, infuriating, and far too handsome for his own good. He considers her stubborn, suspicious, and increasingly impossible to ignore.Then illness tears through the ship.With most of the crew incapacitated, Annabelle becomes the only person capable of keeping them alive. Suddenly, Erich needs the prisoner he was supposed to control, and working beside her forces him to question everything he has been ordered to believe.As distrust gives way to dangerous attraction, duty and freedom collide. Annabelle refuses to become anyone's possession, but Erich may have to risk his entire future to prove she never should have been one.For fans of captive heroines, alien officers, forced proximity, forbidden attraction, medical emergencies, interstellar rebellion.