Veira has survived by being forgettable.
In her farming village, the empire passes overhead every night: carrier ships crossing the valley sky while life below remains almost medieval. Veira knows the safest life is the one that earns no second glance.
Then something ancient answers her.
Three days later, Commander Theron arrives to investigate.
He is Order: meticulous, controlled, and dangerously perceptive. He has investigated anomalies in a hundred villages, filed his reports, and left. He expects this village to be no different.
But the closer he looks at Veira, the harder it becomes for either of them to pretend she is ordinary.
He watches her like a man trying not to want what he has found. And the danger of being truly seen by someone like him is that Veira starts to want it back.
As the truth inside her becomes harder to contain, Veira must choose between the small, survivable life she built and the terrifying door opening inside it.
He is standing on the other side.
A gothic science-fantasy romance with imperial starships, medieval villages, hidden psychic power, class-divide tension, and a slow burn with serious heat.
For readers who want romantasy in space, a cold and perceptive love interest, ancient mysteries, gothic imperial grandeur, found family in the making, and high emotional tension with lower action in book 1.
