Regen can hold off age and illness for centuries, so Garrett Caractacus has known little of death beyond violence and accident.
The terraforming scientist, a sheltered general’s son, is weary of comfort and glamour and takes on harder work at the Fringe world of Pandora.
There he joins the team making the planet livable for arriving colonists whose bodies reject Regen and who can still die from injury, disease, or old age.
He means to keep his distance from those naturals, yet young Cody and Cody’s father, Jonah, work their way past the guard around his heart.
Garrett must choose between the ease of the Central System and a life on Pandora spent loving and building a family with people he already knows he will not keep for long.
