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 total strangers—until sabotage brings their public grav sled crashing down over the planet’s largest tropical swamp.

First, they have to survive.

Second, they have to cross 5,000 kilometers of brutal terrain to reach the capital.

And finally… they need to figure out who tried to kill them.

Their lives depend on finding the answer.