For thirty years, Rebeka’s people have fought the Earthmen who invaded their planet.
Now, Rebeka’s father has devised a plan to bring about peace: offer the Earthmen a cease-fire, and cement it by giving his daughter as their leader’s bride.  At first skeptical, Governor Philip Hamilcar is swept away by lust but he soon finds he has a rival for his wife’s affections in Darius Marx.  An android possessing the ability to experience human emotion, Darius has also fallen in love with the Earthman’s bride.
Rebeka doesn’t want an alien husband and she certainly doesn’t want to kill anyone, but she’s given no choice.  Once married to Philip, she discovers her husband more than empathetic to her people’s plight.  Soon the two are in love, and Rebeka has to make a choice…