On Kestrel Station, oxygen is rationed. Privacy is a fairy tale. And love is a fire the corporation will gladly extinguish.
Dr. Mara Sato knows the station is failing - because she is the one keeping it alive with grease-stained brilliance and borrowed miracles. She also knows she cannot be found. Not by the company that owns Kestrel. Not by the investigator hunting for a ghost.
Commander Cassian Vale is the station's perfect face: decorated security, untouchable authority, and the corporate heir trapped in a gilded leash. He follows rules because rules keep people breathing.
Then sabotage hits. Quarantine seals. One room. One sleep sack. Cameras that never blink.
To save the crew, Mara and Cassian must trust each other in the places trust hurts most - under surveillance, under pressure, and one heartbeat away from everything they have sworn to deny.
But when the station becomes a weapon and the corporation demands obedience, they will face a choice no policy can soften:
Do they save everyone or finally choose themselves?