Almost Partners

Those with power and authority work to keep it.

Those without both suffer or accept their fate.

Joanna McMillin may be at the top of the Gaia hierarchy, but she has survived loss. First the disappearance of her twin brother at the behest of her own mother then the murder of her soon to be wife, Judy. Offered a chance to make a real change in the world, she must choose to bend her ideals to save her brother and get revenge or continue living in her moral glasshouse and watch injustice prevail. Scott has never had many choices in the worldwide matriarchy, but now he has met the Scion of one of the world's greatest families. Can he convince her that he's more than a means to her end and find a way to turn his nightmare existence into a brighter future? Their choices will lead them down the path to something has hasn't been possible in almost a millennium, a partnership between females and males.