Nina is normal Florida girl with a job and a life and a grandmother she adores. But lately she's been having disturbing dreams. Dreams of a man with a shadowed face-a man filled with pain and need and desire only she can slake. She fears him but at the same time, the dreams leave her breathless with need. Who is this dark stranger and what does he want of her?Reddix is a Touch Kindred with an inverted Touch Sense-he can't touch with his mind like others of his kind. Instead, he is doomed to endure their emotions like a physical invasion every time he's around anyone. Desperation drives him to kidnap Nina-the girl he has been dreaming of. But he doesn't take her out of love but as a sacrifice to one who claims she can cure his affliction. Snatching Nina from her job, Reddix takes her on a journey to the stars that ends in disaster. Now, marooned on a strange planet they will have to learn to work together in order to survive. Can Nina forgive Reddix's attack and gain his trust enough to heal him...or will his face remain forever Shadowed?