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Mary is part of an elite CySapient team, surveying planets looking for potential worlds to colonize. Her partner, Ben, is a total conversion sentient spaceship–and her husband.
While investigating the surface of a rare, potentially habitable planet, Mary encounters a strange plant-animal hybrid that threatens to destroy her despite her near invulnerable Cynetic body. Ben rescues her, but the lifeforms create a violent lightning storm and almost blast him out of the skies, severely damaging his systems–including his highly expensive Dataract.
After limping back to the nearest repair base, Mary confronts the ruthless station manager, Tartoa, looking for help. But Tartoa isn’t known for his generosity. And a combination of Ben’s penchant for lavish hardware upgrades, and bad investments in colonies that haven’t reached maturity yet, means their funds are almost depleted.
Unable to afford the life-saving repairs that Ben needs, Mary’s world is shattered. Now she must risk everything to save her partnership with Ben and make decisions that will change both their lives irrevocably.
