Quiet Moon

A Found Family Opposites-Attract Sci-Fi Romance

By: Marianne Chappell

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Every Broken Arrow Universe novel is a complete standalone romance set in the same world. There is no required reading order.
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erfect for fans of Firefly, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, and any romance where the found family works as hard as the found love, Quiet Moon delivers a one-night stand that refuses to stay casual, a fogbound slow burn under a departure clock, and a heroine who's spent a lifetime making sure nobody gets close enough to leave her — and now has to risk it anyway.
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I was supposed to unload the Arrow and be gone by morning.

Instead, our engine died hours after a one-night stand with the local dockmaster—and now repairs are going to keep us grounded for weeks. On his moon. With him.

I can handle grounded. I can handle repairs, and delays, and a crew that finds this whole situation extremely funny.

I can't handle Halden.

He doesn't do one-night stands, as a rule. He's not embarrassed that ours mattered. And every time I crack a joke to get past something real, he just waits—patient, unimpressed, absolutely refusing to let me off the hook—until I say the true thing instead.

Nobody's ever out-waited me before. I don't know what to do with a man who isn't buying the act.

The longer the repairs take, the more his tiny moon starts to feel less like a delay and more like somewhere I could actually stay. But every day the Arrow gets closer to flightworthy is a day closer to the goodbye I've given a hundred times, to people who never got the chance to give it to me first.

I built my whole life on leaving before anyone could leave me. When the Arrow's ready to lift, I won't just lose Halden.

I'll lose the one chance I've ever let myself have at finding out what happens if I stay long enough to be chosen.