These Broken Stars

The luxury spaceliner Icarus is pulled out of hyperspace without warning and crashes into the nearest planet. Two passengers survive: Lilac LaRoux, daughter of the richest man in the universe, and Tarver Merendsen, a young war hero who grew up with nothing. They appear to be the only ones left alive.

Tarver has long believed that girls like Lilac bring more trouble than they are worth. With no one else to rely on, the two have to cooperate and set out across strange, empty terrain to look for help. The trek is hard going.

Somewhere along the way, the wreck begins to look like a gift. Back in their own world, a future together would be out of reach for a girl of Lilac's wealth and a soldier of Tarver's origins. Here, they start to ask whether staying might be better than being rescued.

Then whispers start to follow them, and the truth behind those sounds threatens to end that hope. They may find a way off the planet, but they will not be the same people who landed on it.

This is science fiction romance, told as a survival story with an eerie, unsettling edge. It is the first book in the Starbound Trilogy, which follows three worlds and three love stories against one enemy.