Under the Wrong Star

By: Lorne, Kira

Camille Johnson always knew the universe was speaking to her. She just didn't expect it to answer back.

At the Atacama Observatory, Camille is an astrologer accidentally mistaken for an astronomy fellow, a glitter-pen dreamer surrounded by equations, satellites, and one extremely judgmental cat named Black Hole. Eduardo Alonse is the researcher she somehow fell in love with-structured, brilliant, endlessly patient, and absolutely certain the cosmos obeys math, not vibes.

Then Camille finds something in Eduardo's asteroid drift data. A tiny deviation. Then another. And another. Patterns that shouldn't exist... but do. Patterns that just happen to line up with moments she and Eduardo are very, very intimately familiar with.

Suddenly, two people who could not be more different-logic and intuition, science and starshine-are pulled into the same mystery. What did they stumble into? A cosmic coincidence? A dark-matter anomaly? A jealous cat walking across a sensor? Or something stranger, sweeter, and impossibly personal?

As their relationship deepens and their discovery gains attention, Camille and Eduardo find themselves at the edge of something neither of them can fully explain. A love story written between the hard rules of astronomy and the soft chaos of belief.

Maybe the universe isn't indifferent after all.

Maybe it notices us.

Maybe it noticed them.

And maybe, for a brief impossible moment,

it blinked.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GP3M7XPC
• ISBN13: 9798223294382
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Black Orchid Press
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"