Anna Paulson needs another hundred signatures for her petition to reach this week’s goal, and on this hot, summer Friday evening, she has one more doorbell to ring before she calls it quits for the day. Then she’ll be at it again first thing in the morning. Then Frank Burke answers the door wearing only a towel, and she enjoys some innocent flirting with a man who appears much younger than her. The flirting becomes less innocent as she’s invited to join his roommates for dinner and a movie on their big screen TV. Anna surrenders to her fantasy and participates in a ménage a quatre, spending a very intoxicating night in bed with Frank, Jeff, and Steve. But after a few weeks of the best sex of her life in a relationship that doesn’t seem to exist outside of the bedroom, Anna decides it’s time to get back to reality. But Frank won’t let her go that easily.

As the conflict escalates between the Open Air Society and Profortuna’s Council, newly-promoted Corporal Crystal and her former Military Academy classmate, Corporal Fisher, are assigned undercover work together, just as their eight years of sexual tension combusts. On kitchen duty in the First Quadrant, Crystal and Fisher interact with the intelligentsia, making contact with members of the Open Air Society and gathering intel for the Council. Crystal uses the opportunity to rekindle her relationship with two members of the intelligentsia, Henri and Stepho, leaving Fisher alone to fume over her preference for the scientists she met when they were refugees in Fourth Quadrant after the initial terrorist attacks. When Crystal learns the scientists are working for the Pro-Freedom Movement, she begins to question which side is the right side. Would life on Profortuna be better without the Council controlling every aspect of people’s lives? If civilians were free to make their own decisions, could she ever get Fisher, Henri, and Stepho to agree to be her three chosen mates?

Having spent the last twenty-five years devoted to science, elite bio-researcher Anna is now faced with her mandatory mating on the un-breathable planet of Profortuna. Anna’s research on how to sustain life in the bio-domes is vital, but it also makes her a target of the Open Air Society. Convinced the Council has found the most appropriately brain-heavy men on the planet for her mates in order to perpetuate their superior intellectual genes, Anna is shocked to find three high-ranking military men waiting for her in the reception room. Just as Anna’s sexuality is awaken by a kiss from one of her mates, terrorists from the Open Air Society attack her lab, and the three Generals act quickly to protect her. As they shuttle her to the other side of the planet, Anna comes to know her mates intimately as three men of distinction. But can they fulfill her secret wish to find old-fashioned romantic love?

Ree has been Leila’s best friend since her first day of work at the nonprofit research organization five years ago. They bonded immediately with a common interest in science and technology, as well as shared addictions to chocolate and Thai food. Being in the minority in a male-dominated field has made their friendship even more precious to Leila. She can’t risk losing her best friend by exploring her new desire for Ree, but as desperate feelings of something wonderful slipping out of her reach flood through her, she wonders how she could ever let go.

Faith Daniels is experienced with using her body to ensure survival for her and her brother, even finding her own pleasure in her encounters with both men and women. When her brother is imprisoned as a Resistance member, Faith will use her talents in exchange for information to rescue him, even at the expense of losing the first man she’s ever loved. Trake Forrester, a dark-skinned Aristo of New Washington, D.C., has had his eye on his blonde assistant since Faith started working for him. Her curvy build entices him, but it’s her innate kindness that draws him to her. When he has the opportunity to help her rescue her brother, his complicated relationship with his fiancée, Deja Cain, is useful as well as a hindrance to pursuing his feelings for Faith.