Are they orbiting each other, or falling? Yancey Grenville thought he knew his place in the pack - the clown, the one who always made everyone else happy. A stress reliever for his battle family and for the women he'd spent time with along the way. No one to be serious about, and not someone to settle down with. An attitude that he thought suited him, until a solo mission with the one person he wanted to see him as more leaves him scrambling for a way to erase his reputation. Lt. Imee Lewis fought tooth and claw to earn her reputation as one of the best pilots in the JTF, and no one cheered her on, or up, like the ranger she'd pulled off the battlefield more than a year earlier. Not that she thought she could ever be serious about "Good Time Grenville" - her own scars, and the divide of rank were enough to keep the relationship strictly friends. But when a covert mission traps the two of them together in a half-derelict mining ship, proximity leads to more than familiarity. As the gravity between them gets stronger, they realize that the walls they tore down will be impossible to replace when the mission ends, and everything they've built for themselves could be destroyed.