Assigned to Selene

On a ship eight hundred years from Earth, the most dangerous person alive is the one who refuses to forget.

For twenty-two years, Selene Gray8 has kept the ship's archive the way her mother and grandmother kept it before her - completely, and without asking permission. She knows which records the administration meant to lose, and she keeps them anyway, because forgetting is how power gets away with everything. Two years ago she found the proof: the pairing program that promised thirty thousand people compatibility had been optimizing them for something else entirely. She filed it correctly. Then she waited for the one person who could finish what she could not say alone.

He arrives pulling the exact records she has been guarding - reading them the way she reads, all the way down to the notation pages no one else bothers with. Hilal Gold27 is chasing the same buried crime from the opposite direction, and he has already been assigned the perfect match: brilliant, precise, and entirely the wrong shape. He doesn't know the archivist has been leaving the documents where he would find them. He doesn't know she has been watching him for weeks. He has no idea she has been waiting far longer than that.

As two investigations become one - and the ship's oldest secret cracks open into a reckoning that will decide what kind of world waits at the end of the crossing - Selene is asked to help write the founding charter of a free colony. But the hardest thing she has ever been asked to keep is not a record at all. It is herself, laid open at last, to the one man who pays attention the way she does.

Some things you file. Some things you find. And sometimes, if the archive does its work, they turn out to be the same.

Perfect for readers who love:

• Slow-burn, closed-door romance between two quietly brilliant people
• Mature leads in their forties - no ingenue, no rush
• A love interest who's already assigned to someone else
• Archives, records rooms, and secrets kept in plain sight
• Generation-ship dystopia about memory, consent, and the record that outlives power

Assigned to Selene is the third book in the Assigned Series.