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    Summary

    Everyone knows the story.
    How Commander Shepard destroyed the reapers.
    How he almost lost his life for it.
    After six months in a medically induced coma, he finally beat the odds again, making a full recovery and going to pass on his knowledge to the next generation at the Vancouver Ascension Facility, along with his lover and fellow Spectre Kaidan Alenko.

    What people didn’t know was Kaidan’s quiet despair, wondering if the man he’d nearly lost twice would finally slip away.
    Or Shepard’s struggle with lost time, disability, and nightmares of things half remembered.
    They don’t see the struggle behind closed doors between two men who love each other fiercely and fear each other’s loss.

    But two years after John’s ultimate choice, things are good. Stable, anyway. They work, they go home, they share life and love.

    Until unknown assailants try to blow it all away.

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