Orbiting Hearts

Orbiting Hearts

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Commander Jamie Hale trained her entire life to survive space.

She never trained to fall in love there.

Aboard Unity Station—a fragile international research station suspended high above Earth—Jamie lives by routine, discipline, and protocol. Every movement is calculated. Every emotion controlled. In orbit, mistakes can kill.

Then Anton Volkov arrives.

Brilliant. Reserved. Impossible to ignore.

The Russian cosmonaut is everything Jamie has spent years teaching herself not to need: warmth, steadiness, connection. What begins as quiet curiosity slowly deepens into something far more dangerous as the two astronauts drift closer together inside the isolation of space.

But love in orbit comes with consequences.

There is no privacy aboard Unity.

No escape from each other.

And no safe way to separate emotion from survival.

As the mission continues, stolen glances become secret nights, professional restraint collapses into hunger, and the station itself begins to feel less like a workplace and more like the only place either of them has ever truly belonged.

Yet gravity is always waiting.

Soon Anton must return to Earth, back to politics, agencies, and the lives they left behind. Jamie is forced to confront the terrifying question neither of them can avoid:

Was what they found among the stars real enough to survive on the ground?

Set against the breathtaking isolation of space, Orbiting Hearts is an emotional, sensual sci-fi romance about longing, sacrifice, and two people discovering that even in a world without gravity, some hearts still pull toward each other.