When Khara Therin, the young queen of a small island nation is mistaken for her assistant by the sexiest man she's ever met, she seizes the opportunity to be anonymous. Joshua Riddick keeps the secrets of his troubled past buried deep and, even though there’s no room for messy emotion in his carefully ordered world, he has a hard time keeping things light with the feisty and intriguing Queen’s assistant, Khara. Unbeknownst to the two of them, a powerful enemy is moving against Khara.