He swore to spend his life saving a dying planet. He never planned on needing to save one woman.

Rene York has been alive for eight hundred years. Nine clone bodies. One unbreakable oath to his mother: serve the broken Earth until it heals. To survive that sentence, he built walls — centuries of emotional detachment, a "perennially old man" who hasn't allowed himself to feel anything for anyone in longer than most civilisations last.

Then he meets Livianna Mulgrave in 1810 London, and the walls come down in a single afternoon.

She's a brilliant naturalist hiding behind the corset and the curtsy, a blue-stockinged spinster who curated her grandfather's collection while the world told her that women don't do science. He's posing as a French nobleman — his unsuitable mixed blood hard to hide — to access her family's journals. Neither of them is what they appear, and neither of them is prepared for what happens when the disguises slip.

But Rene has read the historical records. He knows the date Livianna dies. A riding accident. Clear cut. Fixed. And his future world's policy is absolute: you do not interfere with the timeline. Not for a species. Not for a planet. And certainly not for love.

The woman who broke through eight centuries of ice has weeks to live. The laws he serves forbids him to act. And the only way to save her is to deceive the very history he was sworn to protect.

An oath that cost him centuries. A woman who made those centuries matter. And a choice between the duty that defined him and the love that finally made him alive.

Romance where love is the hardest choice — and the most necessary one.

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