Falling for Shooting Stars

​"Tell me, did you sail across the sun? Did you make it to the Milky Way to see the lights all faded...?"

​To the citizens of the Last City, she is a vanguard elite-an immortal shield against the dark. But immortality comes with a compounding interest of trauma, and after years of endless warfare, the Light inside her is starting to feel less like a gift and more like a cage. She is drowning in plain sight, suffocated by the expectations of a hero's mantle and a crushing loneliness she can't seem to shake.
​When a grueling reconnaissance mission in the frozen wastes of Europa goes disastrously sideways, she and her fireteam, the fiercely pragmatic Anya-7 and the fiercely loyal Tariq, are pushed to the absolute brink of psychological and physical survival.
​Bleeding, broken, and forced into a mandatory medical leave back at the Tower, she expects to spend her days rotting in the quiet corners of the hangar. Instead, she crosses paths with Crow. Burded by a past he can't remember and a reputation he can't escape, Crow recognizes the quiet, desperate exhaustion in her eyes. What starts as a tense, guarded encounter between two outcasts slowly evolves into a raw, unfiltered connection. Together, they must navigate the terrifying reality of letting someone inside their walls, proving that sometimes, the hardest battle isn't fighting the Darkness, it's allowing yourself to be loved in the ruins.