On the day brilliant researcher Charlotte Sawyer went in for egg retrieval, she caught her CEO husband cheating on her. When she discovered their seven-year marriage had been a calculated lie—with her husband secretly feeding her birth control pills—she filed for divorce on the spot and enrolled in a classified national research program. Drowning her sorrows at a bar, she ended up spending the night with a stranger. She made the decision to have her identity erased, determined to vanish from her cheating ex-husband's world for good. But her ex tracked her down and tried to force her to stay. At the last second, a helicopter descended from the sky, and the man who stepped out was the stranger from that one night. And he turned out to be the Federation's most celebrated young Major General!