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Riven Hale makes a living where most pilots won't even fly.
With a patched-up freighter called Second Thought and a talent for surviving bad decisions, he runs high-risk deliveries across a fractured galaxy where corporations own entire systems and laws change by the mile. No questions asked. No attachments. Just get in, get paid, get out.
It's worked so far.
Until the cargo moves.
What was supposed to be a routine pickup turns into something else entirely when Riven discovers Nyra-a rare, experimental demi-human engineered for combat and never meant to leave the lab. She's fast, precise, and dangerous in ways even she doesn't fully understand. And now that she's free, powerful forces want her back.
Badly.
With corporate hunters closing in and safe routes turning into traps, Riven is forced into a job he never signed up for: keeping her alive. But Nyra isn't just another passenger. She doesn't think like anyone he's met, doesn't trust easily, and doesn't know what to do with the freedom she's been given.
And somehow... she chooses to stay.
As the pressure builds, so does the tension between them-something quiet, complicated, and impossible to ignore. But they're not alone in the chase.
Vera Kain, Riven's past and a top pilot for a rival delivery syndicate, is back in his orbit-and she's not the type to let go. Armed with equal parts charm and obsession, she's determined to reclaim what she believes is hers... even if it means tearing everything else apart to do it.
Outrun the hunters. Break the system. Don't get attached.
Simple rules.
Riven's about to break every single one.