Alexis Reynald was given a battlefield promotion to Brigadier General and tasked with the job of finding the alien's weakness and defeating them. At a dinner with Elizabeth Harris Alexis laments about her job, having to investigate all the crazies. She said she wishes she could get inside a ship or talk with the aliens and learn their secrets, but that will never happen. The days were counting down until the invasion and one day on the way home, in her limo surrounded by a military convoy, they lost all power and an alien ship landed in front of them. A voice told Alexis if she does not surrender in seven minutes and come aboard their ship every soldier in her convoy would be killed and she would then be taken by force aboard the ship. Bullets and shells just hit a force field and either explode harmlessly or fall to the ground. Alexis surrenders and willingly boards the ship. She is whisked away to a mothership somewhere near the orbit of Neptune. There she meets Jones. Jones is the Information Retrieval Officer. He tells Alexis that she is the Alpha Female, the most important person on Earth. She will be the go between the Earth and the Empire. He also tells her that the Race has an organ that Earth humans do not have, one that allows them to drink in the fear of the opposite sex. It has formed and shaped the Race's past. He then tells her that it is pain that produces the most fear in all humanoid females and that is what he will elicit from her. He also tells her she will be on the Mothership for 28 days and then returned to Earth seven minutes before she was taken. She meets the future Governor of Earth, Adam. He asks her to be his Earth Primary until his actual Primary arrives. Alexis stands up to him and the Race gets their first look at a strong-willed dominant female, something they never encountered. In the next two days both Alexis and the Race learn about each other and come to believe that when Alexis tells them of an Earth saying, "be careful what you wish for, you may just get it," it is words of wisdom because now that both the Race and Alexis have what they wished for, they do not want it. The Governor of the Empire, Lincoln, is on board and hears a ruckus. He goes to investigate. Alexis has her foot on a warrior's neck and it is evident that she could kill him. Alexis managed to take down an alien that is a foot taller and a hundred pounds heavier than her. Lincoln makes decision, Alexis needs to be returned to Earth immediately. One Earth, Adam takes Alexis to the White House where they meet with the President. A few days later, Adam tells her they are going to New York, he wants to speak at the United Nations building. Along the way the Governor of Pennsylvania decides to attack the three alien tanks with a PA National Guard Unit. Every shell just bounces off the Race's tanks and Adam orders his tanks to only destroy the front of the human tanks. It is a rout and they continue on to New York.