Ao’nung knows that no one in their right mind would dare go near Miles, the son of Colonel Quaritch. But he's not in his right mind where Miles is concerned. He's completely consumed by love for the human boy, and he'll do whatever it takes to make him his.

And since he has no idea about how humans are supposed to mate with each other, Ao’nung will do it with Metkayina ways. With his clan’s traditions of courtship.