**AMBYS 2024 WINNER** The Alliance's top galactic terraformer, Pelin Demir, uses state-of-the-art biotech to transform barren rocky planets into lush habitable ecosystems. Seeking escape from a dying Earth and a tragic past, Pelin has devoted a decade to serving the Alliance in the seemingly endless galactic turf war between post-Earth humans and powerful warrior lifeforms, the Karinja.
Pelin's life of quiet order is thrown into chaos when her Alliance leaders inexplicably force her to train Midori, a surly rookie navigator. When a terraforming mission spirals into a catastrophic Karinja ambush, Pelin discovers the dazzling secret that Midori, and the generals of the Alliance, are desperate to keep hidden.
Forced to navigate deep space, draconian Alliance protocols, and her own turbulent past, Pelin charts a galactic course to protect Midori at all costs from the Karinja assassins hunting her, and from the sinister Alliance generals aiming to use her as a weapon of war. Yet Pelin can't seem to protect herself from her growing feelings towards her abrasive protégé. As the conflict for galactic control reaches a climax, Pelin struggles to keep Midori, and her own heart, safe.
🥇AMBYS 2024 WINNER - SCIENCE FICTION
🥇First Place, Katana Awards 2023, Science Fiction
🥇First Place, Lovely Valentine Awards 2023, Science Fiction
🥇First Place, Gloria Regali Awards 2023, Science Fiction
🥇First Place, Jamboard Awards 2022, Science Fiction
🥇First Place, Hearts Awards 2022, Science Fiction
🥈 Second Place, Aster Awards 2022, Science Fiction
🥇First Place, Star Awards 2022, Science Fiction
🥇First Place, Misfit Awards 2022, Science Fiction
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"You're marrying me off to a... woman?"
Hilaire has a big problem. Her father has arranged her to marry a woman, in a way that no rich family in this country has ever done. And, she has an even bigger problem. The woman that she is arranged to is Elena Void. A ruthless, dangerous and mean CEO two years her senior, who has definitely been up to some illegal shit to become the heir to VOID group, her own father's company.
Maybe, Hilaire would've been able to overlook all of that. Maybe, if it weren't for the fact that Elena is the same girl who stole her crush away in senior year of high school, when poor quiet Hilarie was just a sophomore.
The crush in question, Vera Sorax, who Hilarie is still very much in love with, and who Elena is still very much dating.
Or, that one time Hilarie married the scary girlfriend of her terrifyingly attractive crush, and it all became a fight for money, succession and power.
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Published 8th of January 2024
Completed 29th of July 2024 (re-complete 15.11.2024)
Lesbian
Polyamorous