Nisha is a human woman full of secrets. Warik is a Hissa warrior skilled at uncovering them. With many innocent lives at stake, they're going to need to trust each other with more than the truth. Nisha Nisha was tasked with protecting the Decanting technology her mother had developed as a young, eager scientist back on Earth. When her mother realized her knowledge and life’s work was being used to create slaves, she left Earth far behind and took all her secrets with her. Decades later and years after her mother’s death, Nisha has a new mission. A heartless Earth corporation has set up shop far from Earth’s solar system. They are getting ready to Decant their first round of human-hybrid babies to sell off as slaves to anyone with the money to buy them. Her mother might be gone, but Nisha is determined her legacy won’t be used for evil again. She’s only one woman. How can she stop a powerful corporation? There are rumors that a species called the Hissa buy Decanted humans and set them free. If that’s true she might be able to convince these Hissa to help. Past betrayals and disappointments make Nisha wary, but she doesn’t have much of a choice. Warik With over two hundred thousand Hissa males left alive and only handfuls of Decanted women being found every year, Warik is under no illusion that he’ll ever have a mate. As a skilled investigator, he’s prepared to spend his life tracing the sales of Decanted women so the Hissa military can rescue them and bring them back to Hissa. It’s a lonely life, but the work is important. He’s given an assignment to meet with a mysterious human. This woman claims to have information on an illegal Decanting lab and he needs to assess the validity of her claims. He expects to meet a greedy, self-centered human. What he gets is a woman desperate to save innocent lives and unsure whom she can trust. He’s determined to be the Hissa she decides to trust.