The Alliance — Patricia Waddell

Lord Reuel Shatar, the handsome governor of the planet Pyrali, is noble to his galactic core and duty bound to take a wife. His choice is to blackmail a beautiful dissident into marriage or have the House of Shatar fall into disgrace.

Faced with exile to a frigid asteroid or marriage to the man who represents everything she hates, earthling Christa Kirklan reluctantly chooses marriage.

United in a political union, forged by a man's hidden shame and a woman's quest for freedom, the Alliance tremhles under the final test of their love.