Across galaxies and slipping timelines, Aileen has walked the edges of dying worlds. Shaped by centuries of loss, she lands on twenty-first-century Earth with one mission: stop a breakthrough experiment before it tears reality open. But the scientist behind it Dr. Iris Vale is nothing like the reckless prodigy Aileen pictured. Iris is brilliant, hopeful, and certain her work can mend time's fabric, not break it.
Curiosity pulls them closer, even as danger spreads across the city like cracks in pavement after a storm. Aileen tells herself to stay distant, yet Iris's steady warmth unsettles every rule she's relied on. When the first temporal fractures flicker through downtown windows, their uneasy alliance shifts into something intimate and sharp enough to cut.
But the closer they grow, the faster the world comes apart. Iris's invention stirs forces she can't detect. Aileen carries truths she can't reveal without risking the fragile trust between them. Their connection forms in the shadow of a paradox two women from different realities trying to hold a line against unraveling time.
As resonance builds and timelines tilt toward collapse, closeness becomes danger, and love becomes a choice with consequences far beyond Earth.
When the universe begins to split, how far will Aileen and Iris go to stay together?
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Every story in the Aileen series stands alone, yet each reveals another fragment of her eternal search for love among the stars.
Across galaxies and ages, one name keeps returning Aileen. She's an alien wanderer, endlessly curious about the beauty and mess of human connection. Every planet reshapes her a little: a flash of neon light, the hush of waves against a forgotten shore, the quiet ache of a dying world. Through it all, she learns that love strange, fierce, imperfect is the force that binds everything together. What will she find at the edge of the stars when even forever begins to feel human?
