Sophie Kisker brings us back to Midros, a planet where women are enslaved. The galaxy at large can't do much about it because Midros is the only source of a mineral makes interstellar shipping and travel much easier and less expensive. Because of this, Midros does what they want, and everyone else mostly turns a blind eye.

Longings starts after the galaxy finds out that young girls were being stolen from planets that had suffered war or other terrible disasters. Midros had to do that to make sure that there were enough women to feed their needs since many people chose not to have girls, so the girls have to come from somewhere. The military from Deminos is currently occupying Midros, scanning all the women to find out if they were born on Midros or on other planets. Women from other planets get to go home.

Matias Acoff, the brother of Lydia from Memories, is in charge of a squad that is doing the scanning. He and his squad have scanned everyone in their particular area, except for one woman, Enna, an escaped slave. Enna had escaped several weeks prior, trying to find her daughter Miria, who had been taken just before she turned 5 so that she could go to a girls' school so that she can be sold when she turns 18.

When Enna tries to sneak into the city to get some medicine that her group of escaped slaves needs, Matias sees her and grabs her to keep her from being arrested, which would have led to horrific punishment for being an escaped slave. Enna eventually escapes from him, but he followed her to the escaped slave enclave. They go through some difficult issues, Matias does what he can, Enna is trapped by what happened to her. Eventually, they do get their HEA.

Sophie writes beautiful stories, even when terrible things are happening to her characters. You get drawn into her world and you love and loathe her characters. They become your friends and you start pulling for them. The third entry into this series is coming soon, and I can't wait for it. ( )