Assigned to Aurora: Book One of the Series

On a ship eight hundred years from Earth, the most dangerous thing you can do is choose for yourself.Aurora Blue42 has spent her whole life being watched. As Blue sector's most beloved livestreamer, she sells skincare and warmth to tens of thousands, smiling in a way that gives them everything and nothing at once. She has never chosen anything that mattered. Not her sector, not her name, not the three-digit designation that tells the ship exactly what she's worth.Then Gold sector announces the framework: mandatory reproductive pairing, calculated for compatibility and genetic optimization across sector lines. Within seventy-two hours, Aurora is matched to Atlas Gold1, the polished face of the ship's governance. The perfect match. The royal one.But the only person who has ever made her feel real is a quiet man in the agricultural beds, someone who fixes broken things, speaks in short sentences, and calibrates nothing.As a physician's careful investigation begins to crack the system open, Aurora has to decide what she will risk for a life she actually chose.Ten years from a new world, a generation built to be optimized discovers the one thing the algorithm never accounted for: the difference between being matched and being known.Perfect for readers who love: - Arranged-pairing, forced-proximity romance with a slow burn- Generation-ship science fiction and the long shadow of a dying Earth- Quiet, capable love interests who say little and mean all of it- Heroines who trade performance for something real- Dystopias about choice, consent, and breaking a system from the insideAssigned to Aurora is the first book in the Assigned Series.