While grappling with a medical crisis, the narrator reaffirms life with a new relationship. He's an accomplished man of science and letters who mirrors her yearning with his own as he pulls her into his world.

But he's married. Things happen. Or perhaps they don't.

And then she seeks redemption -- which she must decide to fashion for herself.

Eva Bianca is a legal academic who specializes in issues regarding commercial activities in outer space. She divides her time between Europe and the United States.