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A high-stakes space opera of survival, sabotage, and an impossible alliance, where trust is dangerous, and love is deadlier. When celebrated Rotari scientist Dr Mila Doray condemns the quadrant's ruthless trade empires, the universe answers with a ransom note. Her ship is hijacked mid-transit. She and her pilot, Rhen, are dumped into Eania's sweltering rainforest, then delivered to the one man desperate enough to steal her help: Brom, leader of Gromwell, a settlement carved from wreckage, scarcity, and hard choices. Gromwell is a pressure point, and LOUT is squeezing. From orbit and from the shadows, the trade conglomerate weaponised food, power, and loyalty to force the locals into compliance. Explosions rupture the night. Predators hunt after dark. And Brom's people are being driven toward a decision that could ignite a war they can't win. Separated from Mila, Rhen is pulled into something worse: a stranded Krylan unit of enhanced soldiers with neural hardware, still bound to standing orders from a war they don't know is already lost. On a planet under LOUT's comms chokehold, transmitting a signal is the same as painting a target on their heads. To save Rhen and keep Eania from being broken into a compliant resource colony, Mila must decide what Brom truly is: captor, insurgent... or the only man willing to burn down the system that owns them all. Brom crossed a line to protect his planet. Mila should leave while she still can, but she doesn't. She stays, throwing in with Brom and the locals. On the surface, they make no sense - Rotari scientist and Gromwell leader, strangers from different worlds, their first connection forged in deception. Yet under pressure and blood, trust can form in the cracks, and attraction can follow, dangerous, undeniable and hard to control. LOUT won't just tighten the noose. It will pull - hard.

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Amanda LaBrooy's love of science fiction led her to create a universe bursting with limitless possibilities, teaming with vibrant characters, strong female leads, space battles, daring escapades, captivating relationships and boundless destinations. As the stories unravelled, she couldn't let it conclude with a single book. So, it expanded into a series, each shining a light on different characters and their inspiring journeys in the Crystaverse Chronicles: When she isn't writing, she likes cultivating her vegetable garden, visiting popular local food and craft markets, swimming and travelling. She also enjoys tracking down rare clothing gems at vintage and charity shops and remaking them into something fabulous.

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