She's sacrificed everything . . . Vivianne Blackstone has put life on hold for the sake of her world. Her company is tasked with building a prototype spaceship to protect Earth from the invading tribes. Over budget and behind schedule, Vivianne's frustration mounts, and she personally pays a visit to her pet project. She may have to sacrifice more . . . Her frustration is only beginning, because the instant she meets her genius chief engineer, Jordan McArthur, Vivianne's struck by a force she's never known. She wants him--a man she's just met. She needs him--a man she doesn't even like. But this raging desire is so not normal. Jordan looks as if he's seconds from tearing their clothes off. Clearly, Jordan is just as on edge, desperate to repress his need. "Something's . . . happening," he said through gritted teeth. "No . . .it's . . . not." Vivianne's words were an agonized lie. This was insane. Lust had obviously never pounded either of them like this. They were in danger. Earth was in danger. They might all die tomorrow. It didn't matter. They had to have one another. Now. Susan Kearney, a native of New Jersey, writes full time and has sold books to the industries' top publishing houses -- Grand Central, Tor, Simon & Schuster, Harlequin, Bell Bridge Books, Berkley, Leisure, Red Sage, and Kensington. As an award winning author, Kearney earned a Business Degree from the University of Michigan. Kearney's knowledge and experience spans throughout the romance genre, and her fifty plus books include contemporary, romantic suspense, historical, futuristic, science fiction, and paranormal novels. She resides in a suburb of Tampa--with her husband, kids, and Boston terrier. Currently she's plotting her way through her 54th work of fiction.