Shifting Stars

A weapons engineer with a martial-arts habit and no interest in following his family into the military ends up tangled with the guarded Danica Thoreson, and the two of them stumble straight into a corporate conspiracy neither of them asked for.

Leon and Danica's growing closeness keeps colliding with the mess around them, forcing them to question how much of what's happening is choice and how much is just fate running its course. The story leans on that tension between free will and destiny as the conspiracy pushes them into more dangerous territory.

There's no branching to fuss over here; you read through their relationship and the fallout of the plot as it's written, scene by scene, without steering it yourself. It's a straightforward, character-driven kinetic novel with a sense of humor running under the drama, not a puzzle to be solved.