A soul-bond once sacred. A planet lost to silence. A truth unraveling one piece at a time. The ancient soul-bond known as Batasurna was once a blessing. Now it’s a threat. Those bound by it disappear without a trace. Kalaire, a Royal Science Division field ecologist, is studying the bond’s deadly transformation on a distant planet when she and her team are suddenly recalled without explanation. After a year-long journey home, everything has changed. The system has gone silent. No planets answer their hails. The only message left behind is a broken transmission from the Empress: Get the medallions. Dispatched to the ruined world of Erupea in search of one, Kalaire finds a wasteland. When she’s separated from her team, she becomes stranded and forced to rely on the last person who wants to help her. Luken is a native of Erupea. He blames her people for the destruction of his world and the corruption of the bond his people still hold sacred. He wants nothing to do with her. He just wants answers. The longer they survive together, the more undeniable the pull between them becomes. And the more she begins to fear him. Because if the bond between them is real, then one of them dying isn’t the worst outcome—it’s what happens to the one who survives. Erupea is a spicy, sci-fi romance novel in a post-apocalyptic setting. Tropes: enemies to lovers, forced proximity, soul bond Content note: violence, sex, psychological themes