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The sun never started dimming.
Ryland Grace never boarded the Hail Mary. He stayed on Earth, became a molecular biologist at NASA AMEC, and spent his days conducting research instead of saving humanity.
Unfortunately, all research requires funding.
And all funding has to go you.
Twenty years apart in age, separated by job titles, budgets, and far too many rejected purchase orders, they somehow become the last thing either of them was expecting.
Or: Because the universe never had to ask him to become a hero, Ryland falls in love with the project accountant who keeps telling him "no," and somehow that turns out to be the best thing that ever happened to him.