Jayleia Durante was whisked away in the middle of a horde of infected creatures by a man she has little reason to trust. The last time they met, he was commandeering the ship she and her best friend were on, and this time he seems to be commandeering her person in some kind of political maneuver. Her government and his have an uneasy truce and with her father (the recently deposed leader of the government) in hiding she holds the keys to the spy network.

Major Damon Sindrivik is ordered to capture the daughter of a traitor and find out all she knows, no matter the cost to his heart, or hers. It's not all bad, though; he has been highly trained in the art of extracting information via kindness and seduction and he's had a yen for her since the first time they met. Besides, more important than either of their lives is the war with the insectile Chekydren and what she knows may make the difference between survival and the annihilation of the humanoid galaxy.

Marcella Burnard has written one of the better science fiction romances, full of intriguing elements and futuristic conjecture. She has been able to juggle all the disparate threads of the story without losing sight of the solid relationship between the two main characters and while building tension on at least three fronts. Although Berkley has marketed ENEMY GAMES as Futuristic Romance I would be equally inclined to list it under straight Science Fiction. It reminds me a great deal of books written in the Sassinak series and even Bujold's Vorkosigan series. A solid, satisfying read, ENEMY GAMES is the second book in Burnard's series following the bestselling Enemy Within.