Clara & Jack · Book 10
SciFi Romance · Enemies to Lovers
In the Constellation of Taurus
They hated each other in Vienna. Beyond Aldebaran, all they have is each other.
She smeared mustard on him for clicks. Now he’s the only one keeping her alive, 66.7 light-years from Vienna.
Clara lives for the camera. A hundred thousand followers, a smile she practiced in the mirror, and a “chance” collision on Vienna’s Karlsplatz that she planned herself: white silk dress, a physicist with a hot dog who never even looks up from his notebook.
Jack Hofer hates her for it. Until the mustard soaking into the edge of his notebook shows him how to lift reality by the corner instead of punching straight through it. To pay for his next machine, he takes a gig making a birthday cake vanish at midnight. Her birthday.
At midnight, Clara’s miniature pinscher has a yellow cable in his mouth. Instead of the cake, two people vanish.
They tumble into a golden wheat field whose stalks won’t break, under a sky that turns out to be a ceiling. A harvest ship somewhere beyond Aldebaran, the red eye of the Bull, braking toward Earth. Blades mow the field, a machine counts every breath, and the humans on board don’t even scream when a hand gets crushed. The only people who could help them speak Latin. And the only one who understands it is the influencer.
When the harvester screams in overhead, the only air left to breathe is each other’s.
How far do you have to travel to make room for the man you once stepped in front of on purpose?
Enemies to lovers · Stranded in space · Influencer meets physicist · A wedding by the fugitives’ fire · Guaranteed happy ending
🌶️🌶️🌶️ Gripping, dark, and surprisingly funny: a sci-fi romance with goosebumps, butterflies, and a few nights the ship’s cameras really should have looked away from. Contains body horror and scenes of violence.