Rapture

When Kai and Brya fled their home planet for Alliance space as teenagers, their lives took dramatically different paths: Kai joined the Alliance military, and Brya found herself tangled in a smuggling operation.

Twelve years later, Brya has reformed and wants to leave that life behind, with one more illegal run to complete before she can. A random encounter with Kai at Karys Station means she doesn’t have to make that last trip alone. But old feelings have a way of resurfacing when there are few ways to pass the time aboard a clunky old space freighter with danger on the line…