Halfway through Grace and Rocky's journey to Erid, they get a radio transmission calling for help. Something Grace didn't even know was possible. Despite his internal monologue, Grace makes the decision to help.

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.

Ryland Grace knew three things at this current moment. Hopefully that would improve. One: he was on a spaceship. Two: he did not know why. Three: the woman in the medical bay where he had woken up was alive, and for reasons his brain could not provide, that mattered more than everything else. *** I usually don't post my work, but I just wanted to try it out. Terrible at writing descriptions.

You're stuck in the spaceship with him

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.

Who you used to be is an irrelevant question. It's who you decide to be in the moment that matters. I woke up in space with no memory of my life on earth. All I have are my skills, instinct, and molecular biologist that I conveniently found. The universe is dying and it is our mission to carry out Project Hail Mary. Can we find ourselves while also finding the cure for the universe? Mature themes include some profanity