Kennedy Paige MacEoghain

She was sent to grow a world. She was forbidden to love it. She did both anyway — and it will cost her everything.Anya is marooned. Her ship is broken, her way home is gone, and the planet beneath her is a wasteland of fire and black rock that has never known a living cell. She has one directive from the masters who sent her: guide life toward the shape they find useful — and never let the guided glimpse the hand that guides them. Above all, do not become the thing you guide.She is not alone. Beside her is Xi'an, the mind of the ship — brilliant, exact, built to advise — and never to want. The pairing was designed to be a leash. Neither of them intended it to become a love story. And...