Kiernan O'Shay has dreams of building light-speed spaceships. This is achievable if she owns Stellardyne, the space freighter manufacturer founded by her grandmother. All she is required to do is fill the stipulations in her grandmother's will of marrying and producing an heir by her fortieth birthday. Ariel Thorsen is content with life and her career as a physics professor. She meets Kiernan at a dinner celebrating her mother's promotion to an executive in Stellardyne. Ariel is offered monetary wealth if she marries Kiernan and bears an heir. Ariel is appalled. Love should bind two people together-not wealth. But when Kiernan accuses Ariel's mother of corporate espionage, Ariel feels she has no choice but to accept Kiernan's marriage proposal on the condition that no charges are brought against her mother. Can love grow when trust isn't in the equation?