The Reso star system haunts Captain Aliyn Flynn's dreams. Sent on a high-risk mission to uncover its secrets, she and the enigmatic Tyr Logan must find the truth before it's too late for the galaxy. *** Across the Milky Way, the Reso system is feared. Its gas giant, Plenare, destroys any ship that ventures too close. After a narrow escape from Reso, Aliyn Flynn and her crew draw the attention of Earth's government---and are thrust into a mission to uncover what lies within it. Complicating everything is Tyr Logan, her newly assigned executive officer-brilliant, guarded, and impossible to ignore. To uncover the truth, they must decipher a secret buried deep in the past---one that could reshape everything they know--and determine the fate of everything they hold dear. [[Word count: 100,000-150,000 words]] Content warning: Violence Watty Winner 2017

| * I N * P R O G R E S S * | | P R O L O U G E | Overpopulation. Climate change. Nuclear warfare. Despite Humanity's tendency towards self destruction, Earth has been saved from an inevitable extinction by unlikely saviors: Aliens. From a planet where the men outnumber the women by a striking eighty percent, they ask for only one thing in return: Earth's women. | BOOK 1 | Vreekar has hated humans since the day his people spotted their existence. Naomi has dreamt about other life with a romantic wonder since the day she could perceive the stars. Despite never wanting to be apart of the idiotic "matching" system, Vreekar found himself tied to the human that is Naomi. Could the clashing of these two worlds prove that opposites truly do attract?