The answer to "are we alone in the universe?" has finally been answered. But for Lux, she wishes it never was. After being suddenly picked for the Gemini Program, her and her unrequited love and best friend Malachi are sent to be paired with a Jakonian, a species very similar to our own. Now 250 miles above Earth, Lux must prepare herself to be ridiculed, to risk her life, and to enter into an unexpectedly passionate and possessive relationship.