> MEN'S HAREM · SCI-FI ROMANCE
Mayday
The other man in the loop isn't the villain Dez braced for. He's what Dez becomes if he loses.
Dez Ferro has his crew — five women who remember every death with him, bonded into the loop and into his bed, a family clawed out of a dying star. What he doesn't have is a way out that won't kill them. Because the other man riding the loop finally steps into the light, and Captain Aldous Crane isn't the enemy Dez braced for. He's a warning.
Crane escaped this star once, centuries of mornings ago — and watched the woman he loved come apart in three seconds of real sky, un-anchored, erased. He's kept the whole crew dying in the loop ever since, because in here she's still alive. Now he offers Dez the same mercy: stay, and none of them ever dies for good. It lands hardest on Imara, who'd rather cage them all forever than lose one of them again — and when she sabotages a run to keep them safe, the family Dez built starts coming apart from the inside.
Escape is erasure, Crane is the living proof, and the cage everyone was fighting to leave is failing anyway — 'stay forever' was never on the table. Mayday raises the stakes of the Hard Burn saga — a men's harem sci-fi romance where keeping them alive stopped being the same as loving them, the heat is the only thing warmer than the star, and the man Dez is fighting is the man he'll become if he loses. Some mornings don't come. Run anyway.
Not on the shelf yet. Drop your comms address and I'll ping you the second Mayday goes live — plus you get Salvage free while you wait.
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