The Captain He Hated

Jory Mbeki signed a three-year contract to grow food on a ship that did not have a garden. The captain is forty-seven, colder than the hull, and has already rejected her first improvement plan.\n\nVarek Sa'ar has run the Vigilant for eleven years. He does not fraternise with cargo, he does not reopen closed bays, and he does not explain himself to a gardener half his age with more opinions than credentials.\n\nThen the blight comes.\n\nNow the ship has eleven weeks of food, one mutating fungus, and two people who cannot agree on anything, trapped in the same hold with a grow lamp and six months of silence between them.\n\nA Sci-Fi Alien Romance and Age Gap Opposites Attract Romance about rules, rations, and what grows anyway.