Are we orbiting each other, or falling?

Yancey Grenville thought he knew his place in the pack—the clown. A stress reliever for his battle family and for the women he’d spent time with along the way, but no one to be serious about. He thought it suited him, until a solo mission with the one person he hoped would see him as more leaves him scrambling for a way to be someone different.

Lt. Imee Lewis fought tooth and claw to earn her reputation as one of the best pilots in the TJF, and no one cheered her on, or up, like the ranger she’d pulled off the battlefield more than a year earlier. Not that she thought she could ever be serious about “good-time Grenville”—her own scars, and the divide of rank, were enough to keep the relationship strictly friends.

When a covert mission traps the two of them together in a half-derelict mining ship, proximity leads to more than familiarity. As the gravity between them gets stronger, the walls they built begin to crumble. Can the fantasy survive when they crash back into reality?