Three hundred years in the future, a space colony in solar orbit, far from a dead Earth. It is not a new colony, battered by a century of solar wind, meteorites, and lethal cosmic rays. Nor is it a happy colony. Men outnumber women 4 to 1. When a dozen young women are transported from another colony to stimulate baby production, two of the new arrivals are highly qualified engineers. They find brave men to mate, risking their lives in a blue collar adventure of courage, competence, and vulnerability. Adult content. Graphic sex. "There ought to be a law against her," Gadant says about the blonde genius who loves him and transforms his world of nuts and bolts repair work to inspire a heartless warrior.