Native

Author's Note: This newly revised edition features expanded scenes, streamlined pacing, and a bold new ending.

Sabotage stranded them.

Survival entangled them.

Love was never part of the plan.

Li is a third-generation native of New Philadelphia, a colony world still struggling to tame its wilderness. Ge is a visiting xenoecology grad student from Ganesh, a high-gravity world where survival is genetically engineered.

They're strangers from different worlds-until sabotage sends their public grav sled crashing into the planet's largest tropical swamp.

Now survival is only the beginning.

To reach safety, they must cross 5,000 kilometers of hostile terrain, unravel a conspiracy meant to kill them, and learn to trust people who think-and live-very differently.

Because the truth behind the sabotage isn't just political.

It's personal.

It's "Oregon Trail" meets "Pride and Prejudice" on a science-fiction colonial frontier-an action-driven, slow-burn romance for fans of Jessie Mihalik, Veronica Scott, and Martha Wells.

Romance Tropes You'll Love:

• Survival Romance
• Forced Proximity
• Enemies to Lovers
• Opposites Attract
• Slow-Burn Romance
• Cultural & Language Barriers