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A 16-year-old Vaelori observer breaks her species' most sacred law after falling in love with a human boy during an abduction assignment-forcing her to sneak to Earth, where she uncovers that humanity is only one part of a much larger alien experiment tied to interspecies extinction.
Synopsis: She was never supposed to care.
As a young Vaelori Observer, sixteen-year-old Lysera is trained to study humans from a distance-coldly, precisely, without emotion. Her species abducts human families for research every summer, collecting data in hopes of solving a crisis her people refuse to speak of: extinction.
But during one assignment, everything changes.
A human boy.
A stolen summer.
And a connection she was never meant to feel.
Lysera breaks protocol and does the unthinkable-she lets herself care about him.
When the assignment ends and the boy's memories are erased, Lysera makes a choice that shatters her life: she follows him to Earth.
Disguised as a human student, she infiltrates his world, determined to stay close to him even if he doesn't remember her. But Earth is not what she was taught to believe.
Humans are not just subjects.
And the Vaelori are not the only ones watching them.
Across hidden systems of alien governance, different species are conducting their own survival experiments-each trying to solve their own extinction crisis in ways that may conflict... or collide.
As Lysera uncovers fragments of a truth far larger than her world, she realizes something terrifying:
Her love for the boy wasn't the beginning of the story.
It was part of the experiment.
And Earth may be the center of everything.