Going into stasis always makes Nyla, a young botanist, anxious-but it's part and parcel with participating in long-haul space expeditions. After waking up early due to a strange power surge, Nyla fears she's doomed to spend the next year in isolation. Well, not isolation exactly: the ship's resident android, Dante, is there to keep her company. Though seemingly inhuman in every way, increased interaction helps him work his way into her heart. Can the two ever have a relationship? Under the best of circumstances, maybe. But, as things on the S.3.M. Prospect get stranger and more dangerous, Nyla has to navigate very real threats to their happy ending-and threats to the lives of everyone on board. *FEATURES MATURE CONTENT, sex and violence
