Starboard To Vega
Captain Imani Vale has spent eleven years learning never to let feeling bend command. The last time fear and love entered a decision, people died. Now she orbits Verdance, a green world her mission has been sent to settle, and records its strange readings the only way she trusts: cautiously, exactly, giving nothing away.
Doctor Sol Ren cannot afford her caution. Years ago, he found a living world and watched it die inside the gap between what he knew and what he could prove. He has promised himself he will never again let a truth be buried under the word inconclusive. When Verdance answers a sound with a sound of its own, Sol is certain the planet is alive. Proving it before the Board settles it into silence will take everything he has spent years learning not to do.
Between Imani and Sol stand rank, storm season, eleven thousand sleepers waiting for a home, and a charter that has already decided the planet is theirs. Between them also, slowly and against every discipline they own, grows something neither of them is allowed to want.
To save a world that may be a mind, they must build a truth strong enough to survive the people who need it buried, and decide what duty means when conscience and command finally pull in opposite directions.
A slow-burn, closed-door science fiction romance about honesty, restraint, first contact, and the courage to say a true thing in time.
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