A sci-fi romance about survival, identity, and the scars that shape us.In a city still healing from the wars that broke it, trust is a dangerous gamble-and Aelis Calder just bet everything.Eleven years after surviving the Eastern Rift War, Aelis keeps her world small: her hospital shift, her workshop, and the child she rescued during the Fracture Uprising. Then she finds an injured stranger in the junkyard-sarcastic, guarded, and marked as a defector from Unit Theta, the very faction that sparked the civil war.As Riven recovers under her watch, Aelis uncovers a link neither of them expected: twelve years ago, a soldier with a strawberry tattoo saved her life.Now she's faced with a question she never thought she'd ask-has fate brought that soldier back?Meanwhile, their flirty neighbor, Ms. Karna, keeps showing up with too many questions and an uncanny knack for knowing things no civilian should.And just as they begin to carve out something that feels like safety, Riven's former commander resurfaces-and brings the past crashing back with her.In the aftermath of war, two broken hearts collide. And sometimes, love is forged where everything else falls apart.Contains approximately 340 pages

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