A Year and a Day — Gail Daley

Katherine's world is in trouble. A bioweapon had killed or sterilized all the male colonists. Without an innovative solution, the colony is fated to die out within three generations. The Matchmaker Program locates a group of ex-soldiers without a planet and offers them a new home, pairing them with women willing to sacrifice all to save their colony from extinction. Lieutenant Zack Jackson doesn't have a home world anymore -- it's a pile of radioactive ash. He desperately needs a new home for his five orphan dependents. When the Matchmaker Program chooses Katherine for him is it a match made in Heaven or Hell? Katherine needs to find out in a hurry because Zack's five foundlings are too smart for their own good. She and Zack need to find a way to keep their kids safe from the Thieves Guild who really want back what they stole Worse still, she is falling for her new husband and she hasn't a clue if he feels the same about her…