They should have never met.

They have nothing in common.

But when they're trapped in an underground prison on a no-tech planet together, Verona and Iris bond in ways they could never have imagined.

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Iris Eleusine is a Stargazer. He's traveled the known universe and experienced just about everything worth experiencing. He should have known better than to take a job from a group of synthetics to go to the only anti-tech planet in the galaxy. He should have known there would be a catch.

The catch was Verona. She's the quiet killer sent with him. The one that got him arrested and thrown into the worst prison he could imagine—without stars or any promise of release. But that won't stop him from trying. Iris was born looking at the stars and he isn't going to die underground, even if that means teaming up with the person who got him locked away in the first place.

Tags: strangers to everything, codependency, prison, survival romance, explicit sex, explicit language, violence, murder, hanging, scars, threat of violence, attempted sexual assault, near death experiences, learning to trust, emphasis on consent