Ex police-agent now prisoner Beck Hirsch, is suspended from work assignment in the mines after a violent altercation with another convict. As she trudges back over the ice to her residence, she’s accosted by a young man desperate for shelter from an oncoming storm. Beck is reluctant to help him, as male existence on this world is illegal—but the boy, River, piques her interest with his healthy looks, innocence, and charm...
