A Year and a Day

Katherine’s planet was in trouble. A bioweapon had killed or sterilized all the male colonists. The colony was going to die within three generations if a creative solution wasn’t found. The matchmaker program found a group of ex-soldiers who no longer had a planet to come home to and proposed “The Handfasting” pairing them up with women willing to sacrifice all for their world. Zack Jackson was a hard-bitten veteran of the Karamine Wars. He need a home for his five orphan dependents. When the program chooses Katherine for him is it a match made in heaven or hell? Katherine’s going to find out because her new husband comes saddled with five foundlings smart enough to get into more trouble with the local mob than she could ever have dreamed. Now she and her husband have to find a way to keep their kids safe from a local crime boss bent on revenge. And this is nothing compared to the trouble they bring with them when they finally get back to her planet. Worse still, she is falling for her new husband and hasn’t a clue if he feels the same about her…