Eight years after the first humans have arrived at the ice planet, Bek is still without a mate, without kits and completely desperate to finally have a family. 
 Since there are no females available at the planet anymore, Bek does the unthinkable. He asks Captain and Trakan to bring back to the Ice planet five human females, one for him and one for each of the unmated sa-khui (As he is a good man, Bek thinks of his friends, too). What he does not realize is that the only females that can be brought at this planet are bought slaves. 
 Unfortunately, the pure and innocent sa-khui do not understand the concept of slavery. Most of the five females that are brought in the planet have been slaves of aliens and treated like weird animals for a great number of years and they are totally traumatized. Especially when they look at the huge blue aliens with the horns, the women think that they will be suffering again a great deal. 
 Bek is lucky to resonate almost straight away. Sadly he is shunned from the tribe for his behavior as a Rule Breaker and his future mate is not willing to follow him since she is the most traumatized of the women. Smelly and unclean for many years, Elly is hidden under layers of accumulated dirt and filth. 
 Bek needs to be extra cautious and extra sweet to woo scared Elly. ThataEUR(tm)s a first for the most brute, rough guy of the sa-khui tribe. 
 Yes, the grumpy brute will become a sweetheart really soon! 
 I have only two comments for this book: 
 1.	Before I read this book, I really wanted someone tougher for BekaEUR(tm)s mate. I would like to see some tension, some fights and lots of groveling from him. It would have been interesting to see him with someone like Liz. But I think in the end, the sweet, scared Elly who need to be protected and cherished works just fine. It was nice for me to see the sweatest side of Bek.