Overview

She counts the dead. She notices everything. Together, they might just save each other. Dr. Kira Chénier has been running for eleven years—from war, from grief, from the version of herself who believed the world was fundamentally good. On Meridian Crossing Station, she's found the perfect place to hide: cataloguing failures and working herself to exhaustion while her empathic companion Prism tries to keep her from self-destruction. Security Chief Yael Adeyemi knows all about walls. She's built them carefully since her partner's death five years ago. But when Kira walks into a crime scene with brilliant eyes and trembling hands, something shifts. This doctor sees patterns others miss. More dangerously, she sees Yael. What starts as a murder investigation becomes something neither expected: partnership. Coffee with honey delivered at 3 AM. Shared observation deck views of the nebula. Quillin companions plotting in coral-pink approval. The kind of connection that makes isolation impossible. But a corporate conspiracy is trying to destroy their station. Corrupt officials. Illegal experiments. Twelve deaths and counting. As Kira and Yael fight to save their community, they're forced to confront the hardest question: can you build a home with someone when you've spent years believing you don't deserve one? A cozy sapphic space opera about finding gravity when you've been falling for too long.