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Some loves change you. Others cost you everything.Kendra Foster-Briggs has always been too much-too bold, too brash, too unwilling to play by anyone's rules. But when her rising sensie empire crashes under mob debts and backroom deals, she's given a choice: disappear, or serve. OutLook, the covert agency pulling the strings, wants her skills. Her body. Her loyalty.
Then Rose Emmons walks into training-brilliant, stubborn, and impossible to ignore. What begins as heat turns to something far deeper as Kendra and Rose navigate a brutal world of espionage, manipulation, and impossible missions. Together, they build a future on fragile ground-until a betrayal shatters everything.
This is the story the Federation erased: of the woman Kendra loved before Aiyana. Of the war she fought before the Artemis War. And of the impossible truth behind her greatest loss.
Shades of Rose is a raw, heart-wrenching love story told in Kendra's own words-explicit, unsparing, and defiant. A fusion of queer romance, dystopian noir, and emotional suspense, this duology spans sex and violence, courage and collapse, and the cost of love in a world that commodifies everything.
It's not a romance.
It's a love story.
And there's a difference.
About the author
"You know me. Jump first, knit a parachute on the way down." Kendra Cassidy, A Quiet Revolution (Cassidy 4)
Adam Gaffen is the author of the near-future, hopepunk science fiction universe that began with The Cassidy Chronicles. The Cassidyverse includes the epic saga of The Artemis War (which starts with The Road to the Stars), as well as The Ghosts of Tantor (the first book in the follow-up series) and two collections of stories. He's active on the convention circuit and loves talking to fans.
He's a member of the Colorado Authors League, Science Fiction Writers of America, and the Heinlein Society. He lives in Southern Colorado with his wife, five dogs, five cats, and wonders where all the time goes.
