She will go down in history as America's first female member of the Venera 1 space crew. Dr. Jill Danbury had the honor of accompanying Colonel Jake Whitney on his long flight into Earth orbit, the most significant scientific endeavor undertaken since the Moon landing. But what historians will certainly never know is Jill’s anxious thoughts and sizzling feelings for the colonel occupying the next seat in the cockpit, her partner in this exhaustingly lonely odyssey among the silence of space. She tried so hard to forget everything, but today fate collided them again - and imprisoned them in a fragile metal shell, rushing into infinity. Will the tormented heart, shackled by the armor of the spacesuit, withstand the painful torture of unbearable closeness?