Satellites by Rhea Rainwater

A science fiction romance novella featuring star-crossed love, set between a post-apocalyptic Earth and a distant spacefaring future.

Some love stories burn bright, theirs kept a steady signal across the dark.
Solace and Ransom have been missing each other their whole lives. From childhood “almosts” to adult what-ifs, their love story was built on timing that never quite worked out. That is, until the day the world ends.

Seven years later, Solace has survived in an underground bunker on a ruined Earth, while Captain Jude Ransom has risen through the ranks of humanity’s new spacefaring order. Separated by planets, their matter finds its way back to one another in their dreams.

When a signal suggests her bunker door has opened on toxic ground, he risks everything to go back for her. But love, like physics, has laws of its own and some connections can’t be broken.

Even by the end of the world.