The Colony is filled with Alliance fighters who have been taken by the Hive and had some Hive "improvements" put on them. Because the Hive can still control those beings, they are all sent to The Colony to live. That keeps them safe and keeps the Hive from getting to them as well as keeping the planets of the Alliance safe.

Rezzer is one of the people who was captured by the Hive and rescued. He's an Atlan, which means he also has a beast inside him. There is a Hive operative on The Colony and he managed to capture Rezzer while they were hunting the operative down. The Hive managed to do something to Rezzer that suppressed his inner beast and nothing manages to bring it back.

CJ is a financial consultant. Her company was caught doing some bad things, but she's the only one who paid for it. Her choice was to go into the Interstellar Bride Program instead of going to jail. After the testing, she's sent to The Colony and matched to Rezzer.

Atlans are my favorite of all the aliens in the IBP world. Of the Atlans we've met, I really like Rezzer. We don't always see other aliens involved in the worlds, but on The Colony, there is a small society, so we get to see them all. Rezzer is completely awesome. I'm really glad that he got to have a match and to find someone as awesome and strongwilled as he is. CJ is a very strong woman and she knows what she wants to have. She wants Rezzer and she was more than willing to fight for him so that he would know that he was hers.

All in all, this was a great addition to the IBP series and I was so glad to read it and look forward to all the new books in this series. I fall in love with each and every character and want to have them all as my book boyfriends. Sadly, I'm somewhat afraid of their mates. ( )