She came to translate peace treaties.
He came to survive one.
Lydia Carrington accepts a contract on Nexus Station to escape Earth and do the work she knows best: translating between species who barely trust one another. Alien diplomacy is complicated, but it's predictable.
Her new neighbor isn't.
Rhen Vadaris is a Velorian diplomat trained to control every instinct — because his species bonds once, permanently, and interspecies bonding is forbidden by treaty.
One moment of engineered proximity is enough to trigger a connection neither of them consented to.
Now flagged as a security risk, Lydia and Rhen are quarantined while political forces debate whether their bond is a threat... or a tool. As the connection between them deepens, Lydia begins to suspect their meeting was never an accident — and that powerful systems are willing to weaponize intimacy to maintain control.
INTERSECTION is a high-heat science fiction romance about choice after coercion, visibility over secrecy, and two people who refuse to let their connection become infrastructure. Standalone with a guaranteed HEA.
