Darkside Earther

All they want is love. Now they wonder if they'll be able to survive it.

Axel Stahl wants to marry, have kids. Maybe not today, but he sure has eyes on one girl. 

Between massively immersive virtuals, games to entertain nearly eighteen billion people in the Solar System, living aboard a 41 thousand kilometer long space station encircling the Earth, and highly-placed parents in the Spacer organization, you'd think he had it made, but things are never as simple as it seems.

Most "normal" people see Axel as a failure, a lost hope for having children in space. A failure even though he actually did survive his birth. His childhood was full of so much pain.

Helen Kenostaphos doesn't care about failures or, indeed, what anyone else thinks. Nano infusions for speeded perceptions isn't everything. Neither is surviving the pure harshness of space.

Life is precious. It's so much more than that. Life is for the living.

Unfortunately, war has come to haunt them all. The invasion of the Ring, driven by an unimaginable exodus, has got the teens caught on two sides of the conflict. 

This is their horrible reality. Soon it will be filled with lies, fear, and desperate hope.