She might lose her license and her life.
A dual-POV slow burn set on a prison ship during a dying war.
Celeste Bywaters is a romance reader and writer. She is a fan of romance of the pitch-black variety — nearly irredeemable heroes, trapped heroines, and a body count both literal and metaphorical.
She grew up reading Georgette Heyer, Victoria Holt, Daphne du Maurier, and Charlotte Brontë, and was inspired to write dark science fiction romance to take the Gothic out of the estate and into space.
Celeste Bywaters lives in New York City. Breach of Protocol is her first novel.
A prison ship. An ethically dubious medical trial. A meeting that might be a murder.
Aboard the prison ship Askvig, against the background of a grinding war between the human-led Federation and the alien Kirani Confederacy, Dr. Delphine Adler finds herself drawn to lone alien inmate Zev Ahren. As conditions in Askvig deteriorate, Delphine has to decide whether to risk her life to pull off a prison break and her career confessing her feelings, a breach of doctor-patient protocol Zev wouldn't mind.
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