When contact is lost with Mission Control, Commander John Dennington isn’t overly concerned. Such hiccups in communication are common. The first inkling of the larger problem occurs when he sees the very shape of the world change before his eyes.<br><br>John must ease his crew into a new mission and keep the Station together by any means necessary. The crew jeopardizes their chances by fighting his orders, but Jason Weiss, his mission specialist and the light of his life, makes John’s situation more bearable.<br><br>The smallest malfunction to Station or crew would spell the end for six astronauts trapped high above a ruined Earth. It’s their mission to carry on. Random chance of the universe hasn’t operated in their favor so far, but John is determined to see them all safely home.

Expedition 63 Book 1: Dusk

Yakecen and Eli exchanged smug grins. “We knew, though Saito swears you’re not together.”


Jason finally seemed to find his spine, or he figured John had suffered enough questions on his own, because he spoke up from behind John. “How? We were so careful!”


“You guys can’t keep your eyes and hands off each other,” Eli said. “Especially during the last few months training for this mission and we were putting in all them extra hours, it wasn’t hard to miss.”


Yakecen nodded along as Eli talked, and then jumped in. “Saito knows you’re in love with each other, but he thinks you were both pining because you hadn’t said anything yet.”


“Saito reads too much shonen manga.” Jason chuckled and slipped his hand into John’s.


Of course, Yakecen wasn’t going to leave that alone and John knew it. “You’d only know that if you were reading it too. How would you know how much he had, otherwise?”


Chapter 25