Bahia Vista homi­cide de­tec­tive Theo Pe­trakos thought he’d seen it all. Then a mum­mi­fied corpse and a room full of fu­tur­is­tic hard­ware sends Guardian Force com­man­der Jorie Mikkalah in­to his life. Be­fore the night’s through, he’s be­come her un­of­fi­cial part­ner—and of­fi­cial pris­on­er—in a race to save the Earth. And that’s on­ly the start of his trou­bles.

Jorie’s mis­sion is to stop a dead­ly in­fes­ta­tion of bio-​me­chan­i­cal or­gan­isms from us­ing Earth as its breed­ing ground. If she suc­ceeds, she could save a world and win a cap­tain­cy. But she’ll need Theo’s help, even if their un­like­ly part­ner­ship does threat­en to set off an in­ter­galac­tic in­ci­dent.

Be­cause if she fails, she’ll lose not just a plan­et and a pro­mo­tion, but a man who’s be­come far more im­por­tant than she cares to ad­mit...

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