the reluctant warship Night Service

Some of you may recall Quarren and Eden, last heard of falling cluelessly in love as the clueless leads of a spaceship romantic comedy?

That's a yuletide story that's basically original SF f/f, and enjoyed writing it so much that I decided they should have their own book. I have written a first draft of that book! It is a full 100k, surprisingly, and quite a lot more serious. "spirit falling" is for sure a romcom; this is a love story, but a big, sad, dramatic one, with a backdrop of old wars and trauma, and ghosts and homegoing and all manner of things. Quarren is a hopeless lesbian. It does still have jokes in it, and the two main characters are the same people.

The 100k is barely readable, of course, but here is a standalone bit that is.

[NB - if you've read spirit falling, note the ship's name has changed - in that, it was Spirit Falling because the town in the original piece was called Spirit Falls. Quarren now efficiently administrates the Luna Central Command community ship Night Service.]

( a melancholy love story, featuring flowers, starlight and clueless lesbians )