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The Quiet Between Us: A First Contact Romance
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.29 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She was supposed to be his data source. He was supposed to remain uncorrupted by the very thing he'd come to measure.
When humanity makes first contact, one visitor is sent to observe - and to decide, in ways no one on Earth fully understands, what happens next. Dr. Sloane Weir, a researcher who has spent her career studying how people survive the unsurvivable, becomes his closest human contact almost by accident. He calls himself Vane. He has no word for what he starts to feel for her, because his own civilization was nearly destroyed, centuries ago, by exactly this kind of love.
As Vane's careful, clinical study of human emotion gives way to something his people have no framework for, Sloane realizes his final verdict may decide humanity's fate among the stars - and that the very attachment growing between them might be the one thing capable of destroying it. Between manufactured political crises, a species terrified of its own history repeating, and a love neither of them chose to feel but both refuse to walk away from, Sloane and Vane must find out whether individual, irrational, human love is a danger to be contained - or the answer his people never knew they needed.
A slow-burn, emotionally driven first contact romance about the courage it takes to choose someone fully, and what that choice might mean for two entire worlds.
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