The Gravity Between Us

Crushing gravity. A sealed habitat. Two experts running out of reasons to resist each other. Kethri Third-Carapace is ready to give her people something they've never had on Cynosure: permanent homes. A massive, six-limbed Veskari commander with bronze-black living armor, she knows what a structure can carry—and what happens when authority refuses to listen. Then a child's keepsake falls sideways. Gravity surges. The doors seal. Trapped in a transfer spine with human engineer Noah Danner, Kethri must protect visiting families while the station prepares to jettison their habitat. The official record blames her. The man beside her specializes in improvisation: the very approach she associates with the loss of her clutch-sister. Noah knows how to make himself indispensable during a catastrophe. Staying afterward is harder. But Kethri's fierce intelligence, dry humor, and formidable armored body make him want something no emergency assignment has ever offered: an ordinary life together. As the evidence points toward sabotage, his ingenuity needs her hard-won caution as much as her plans need his flexibility. Every shared risk draws them closer—and makes the possibility of losing each other harder to bear. The station is counting down to sacrifice. Kethri and Noah are beginning to want more than survival.