The Alpha's Frozen Bride

Thea Okonkwo signed up for two years of cryo to study glacial collapse on Teth-4. She wakes fourteen months early, alone, and shivering. The only other person on the ship is Korhall — ice-caste, collared, shipped in as unpaid labor and left on board because nobody wanted to pay his berth. Her pod has triggered something. A hormonal cascade that will shut her body down in six weeks, and the only stabilizer anywhere on this ship is an alpha's bite. Korhall stopped biting to bond a hundred years ago. It's illegal where he's from. He says no. Six weeks on a dying transport. A supply drop in a blizzard. A file on the ship's terminal with Thea's name on it and no explanation. When the penal colony's retrieval ship arrives to collect Korhall, they discover the transport company has been running experiments on omegas for years, and Thea is the last file still breathing. A slow-burn sci-fi omegaverse romance about a locked door, a stolen ship, and a bite neither of them planned to need.