Tethered

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>One boy his mother and a captain with secrets from her crew. Amongst the stars all things lost are found.</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Marlowe Rose has been fighting her ex Dominik for a decade. When he kidnaps their son she sneaks onto his starship planning to give him hell. Instead she ends up caught sequestered and questioned by the captain. But Tanisira Sekmith isn't what Marlowe thought she was and when it becomes clear that they're all just puppets in Dominik's eyes Marlowe convinces the stoic captain to help rescue her son.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Tanisira promised herself she'd make no waves catch no one's attention and cruise under the radar. Misplacing her trust once changed the trajectory of her whole life. After the fallout from her last job flying a pleasure yacht is supposed to be boring and easy-exactly what she wants. But finding Marlowe on the ship changes everything. Marlowe sees her shadows and all and it forces Tanisira to face things she tried to leave behind.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Marlowe doesn't expect to find on this journey that she dreaded something she'd given up. And Tanisira doesn't know if she deserves happiness but she doesn't want to lose this: a kid with big green eyes and his fierce captivating mother.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Described as <em>Becky Chambers</em> meets <em>Delilah Green Doesn't Care</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Tethered</em> is a Sapphic soft science-fiction romance. There are content warnings in the front matter and at www.tjwilliams.uk</strong></p><p></p>