It"s Men In Black meets CSI:Miami! He"s a Florida cop. She"s an intergalactic zombie hunter. Saving Earth is the least of their problems... Bahia Vista homicide detective Theo Petrakos thought he"d seen it all. Then a mummified corpse and a room full of futuristic hardware sends Guardian Force commander Jorie Mikkalah into his life. Before the night"s through, he"s become her unofficial partner--and official prisoner--in a race to save the Earth. And that"s only the start of his troubles. Jorie"s mission is to stop a deadly infestation of bio-mechanical organisms from using Earth as a breeding ground. If she succeeds, she could save a world and win a captaincy. But she needs Theo"s help, even if their unlikely partnership threatens to set off an intergalactic incident, and forces her to choose between a planet and a promotion--and a man who"s become far more important than she cares to admit...