Set on Jarved Nine, where an Earth expedition is studying an intact city built in ancient times by an unknown race. The city, protected by a mysterious energy field, has survived the centuries even though no sign of its builders remains.

Our protagonists are Captain Kendall Thomas, a military archaeologist who keeps track of artifacts found by the civilian researchers and Special Ops Captain Wyatt Montgomery. Kendall discovers that some of the archaeologists are diverting artifacts into the illegal antiquities market. Worse, in order to ship them out they must have help from somewhere very high in the military command structure.

She doesn't know where to turn. She trusts a friend of Wyatt's in Wyatt's absence, but he is killed. She goes to the ancient temple to check artifacts and is trapped there. Coming back, Wyatt joins her there and they are lost in the ancient maze. It is only their emerging memories of a past life where she was chief priestess of the temple and he was her lover that save them. They play tag with the tomb robbers and emerge. They still must evade the enemy, trace the thefts to the top of the hierarchy emerge alive to reap the love they have found for each other.

The book is quite readable though it is obviously derivative. Jane Ann Krentz does it a little better. Fans of SF Romance will love this. -- Gary Swaty