Ryland Grace doesn't remember his past. Lyra Novak doesn't remember Ryland Grace. Both of those things are a problem. Because somehow, humanity surviving becomes the easier part. Or: two touch-starved scientists with memory loss accidentally speedrun emotional intimacy aboard a spaceship without even noticing.

It's Miss Everett's first year as the middle school history teacher at Grover Cleveland Middle School. Thankfully, the science teacher, Dr. Ryland Grace, is just across the hall to offer all the support he can.

"𝐢𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐚 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐞." "𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐚 𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥. 𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐲𝐨𝐮." "𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭, 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞-𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠. 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭-𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐠𝐨." ‧͙⁺˚*･༓☾　　☽༓･*˚⁺‧͙ in which everyone thinks alina stratt hates ryland grace, but rocky can see right through it-and them, technically.

They met by chance in a crowded bar. She was Dr. Isla Torres, a brilliant NASA physicist with a sharp mind and sharper instincts. He was Ryland Grace, an awkward but beloved middle school science teacher with a habit of turning every conversation into a lecture on something wonderfully nerdy. One ridiculous shirt. One impulsive question. One night that turned into forever. They fell in love quickly-messily, intensely, completely. Ryland loved the way Isla could match his science with ease and then challenge him just to watch him think. Isla loved the way Ryland made her laugh like she wasn't carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders. They married. Built a life together. Years of quiet mornings, shared jokes, late-night arguments about Pluto, and a love so steady it felt like gravity itself. And then- Dr. Ryland Grace and Dr. Isla Torres Grace wake up. Not in their bed. Not in their home. But aboard a spaceship drifting in deep space. Head pounding. Memory fractured. No idea how they got there. Ryland looks at the controls he doesn't remember learning. Isla stares at the stars she doesn't remember agreeing to leave Earth for. And between them, a terrifying truth begins to form: They didn't just wake up in space. They were sent there. Together.

One Solar System One Milky Way And one dying sun. Ryland Grace is a scientist/teacher who never wanted to be a hero, just someone solving problems in a quiet lab and to teach his children, far from the end of the world. But the world is ending anyway. Katlynn Briar always felt like she was destined to achieve something big for humanity. But when she finally gets the chance, it doesn't feel like triumph-it feels like weight. Like every answer she finds costs something she can't put back. But the universe doesn't care. When the Hail Mary project shifts from theory to reality, choices disappear. Governments decide. Orders are signed. And Ryland Grace is taken from Earth whether he is ready or not. They don't have a choice. Katlynn Briar is still there in the silence after the launch decision-watching the world continue as if nothing has changed, while everything inside her already has... And somewhere out in the dark, a ship turns toward the stars carrying one man who never wanted to leave...

The sun is dying. The mission is a suicide run. There's an alien made of rock and jazz. And Dr. Ryland Grace has just realized the only other man on board is hot...and British.

When Elara Hudson wakes aboard the Hail Mary with no memory of her past, the only person left alive beside her is Ryland Grace - a man who looks at her like he's already lost her once before. As humanity's last mission pushes toward an alien solar system, Elara must navigate fear, memory loss, and the terrifying feeling that her heart remembers him long before her mind does. A Project Hail Mary fanfiction about love, grief, and finding each other again at the end of the universe.

In the time before the Petrova Line dramatically altered his life, Ryland Grace was just a 7th-grade science teacher who lived alone. His life is centered around work and work only because he has nothing else to center it around. When he is able to get a job working at a college as a substitute math teacher, he encounters a college senior named Rose with whom he instantly connects--for better or for worse.

Adora, a scientist and trained astronaut, is sent across interstellar space on a mission Earth never truly expected to succeed. To find Dr. Ryland Grace, the man who saved humanity and was presumed lost forever. But on the alien world of Erid, she finds more than a survivor. She finds a man who has built a life among the Eridians, a world that has become his home, and a connection neither of them expected. (Accurate science and details to Project Hail mary book/ movie, with a bit of smut 😏)

Ryland Grace survived Project Hail Mary and somehow that was only the beginning of his story. Five years after Project Hail Mary, Ryland Grace has built a quiet life on Erid spending time with Rocky, Adrian and his students. Then a ship crashes onto the planet carrying a human-like alien explorer with secrets of her own. As Ryland is pulled back toward Earth, buried truths about the Hail Mary mission begin to surface and the connection growing between him and Senita may cost them both everything. Ryland Grace x FemOC Alien OC Slow burn ***posting new chapters Monday & Thursday*** FYI - This is still a rough draft so I will go back and update as I have time :) - Feel free to comment and provide feedback!