You Called It Estuary

Vic was promised a weapon. Instead, she got a partner who can feel everything she does.

Meet Captain Victoria Kohler: a human officer who is loud, restless, and drinks enough coffee for a whole army. Vic's ten years of service have finally earned her a spot in the Tandem Project, the USC's shiny new weapons program. It's the career move of a lifetime, and Vic has never had a reason to question the people signing her orders.

Enter Captain Naev Asphen: a Vamath officer who is guarded, watchful, and perfectly comfortable speaking to the moon more than she ever speaks to humans. Distance is safety, particularly from the species whose First Contact killed nearly a third of her people a century ago.

On paper, these two are the program's perfect pair: the first human-Vamath team, a walking recruitment poster. The Tandem Project's neural implant was only supposed to link them through a weapon; instead, it links the pair through everything. The spike of Vic's panic in Naev's chest. The itch of Vic's nail-biting in Naev's fingers. The weight of Naev's memories creeping into Vic's dreams. Every feeling crosses over… including the ones beginning to grow between them.

If the institution that built this program finds out, they'll pull the link. The procedure that would free Vic could kill Naev.

Vic has a way out. Naev doesn't.

You Called It Estuary is a slow-burn sapphic sci-fi romance, perfect for fans of forced proximity, human/alien, and psychic bond. Book one of the Tandem series.