Samara is torn when the handsome Magistrate Marcus offers her a tempting deal which would make her a free woman. He's different from the Patricians she's met so far, and he's definitely more charming than her abusive master Aaron. His nearness evokes previously unknown emotions in her, but the idea of sharing his bed is as intimidating as it is thrilling. Can she trust him, or will he turn out to be just as cruel and manipulative as her previous master?

Marcus is fascinated by the beautiful slave with the flaming red hair and the exotic, fair-skinned look. Hoping to gain valuable information from Samara, he makes her an offer she can’t refuse, unknowing that she’s entangled in a web of lies that not only endanger his mission, but soon also both their lives.

In the year 799 of the Aschen calendar, Earth is no longer free. Humanity lives under the rule of an alien government that has enslaved the planet, seized control of the Stargate, and reduced human survival to a matter of state control. Most people are born infertile now. Those few who can still have children are treated as valuable property.

When twenty-five-year-old Samantha Carter’s fertility test comes back positive, her future is decided for her: forced marriage, confinement, and a life spent serving the Aschen’s plans. Instead, Sam runs. Determined to find the resistance and fight for her own freedom, she joins forces with Jack O’Neill, the leader of Cell 4, unknowing that the handsome man fighting at her side is the man the Aschen's system forced her to marry.