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    Ryland Grace has lost everything: his career, his home, his reputation, and the brother who stopped answering when he needed him most. When a beautiful stranger offers him coffee on a freezing night, Ryland is too exhausted to wonder why the man looks at him like a ghost.

    He wakes underground.

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    Tom Ryder remembers the end of the world.

    He remembers the cold, the hunger, the wars, the dying sun. He remembers Ryland Grace vanishing into space aboard the Hail Mary. Most of all, he remembers loving him — and losing him.

    When Tom wakes in the past, before Ryland knows him, before the Petrova line, before the mission that will take him away, he decides that grief has made him wiser than morality. He builds a hidden refuge beneath the Nevada desert, stocked with everything Ryland will need to solve the astrophage problem before the world comes calling.

    Then he kidnaps him.

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