A privileged passenger on the skyliner Moon Courier, Alena Yor was waiting for the journey to end and her new project as a high-ranking cartographer to begin when she first met virile officer Garner Rie. Handsome and corageous, Garner intrigued Alena like no man had before. But surrendering to his touch would mean nothing but misery for them both. For any contact between lowly officer and the highborn beauty was stictly off limits in their rigid world - and Alena had been raised to play by the rules........