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🌌 Tangled Roots and Circuits 🌿⚙️
In the year 3000, love is the most dangerous design.
Novaleigh Wy'Lam was born to breathe life into cities. As a Biobotanical Architect, she weaves roots into towers, blossoms into skylines, and dreams of a world where structures heal instead of break.
Evander Monrai was forged in steel. As a Technomechanist, he builds the spines that keep colonies standing and the defenses that keep them alive.
Their families have been rivals for centuries-life against machine, soil against steel. But when the Council forces them to collaborate on the most ambitious city ever attempted, their visions collide in a storm of sparks, barbed words, and undeniable chemistry.
Roots choke engines. Circuits strangle vines. And somewhere between the arguments and the late nights, something unexpected takes root: desire.
On a frontier world where alliances fracture and danger circles close, Novaleigh and Evander must decide-will their tangled creation be a city that endures... or the beginning of a love that could unravel them both?
✨ A slow-burn enemies-to-lovers romance set against a galaxy on the edge.
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