Terms of Reentry

He came back to Earth a hero.She is the one person who knows reentry is only the beginning.Six years ago, Dr. Tessa Rinaldi spent one unforgettable night with a stranger in Chicago. By morning, he was gone-and so was any chance of seeing him again.Now Commander Reid Halvorsen has returned from a fourteen-month orbital mission, celebrated by the world and struggling with a planet that feels louder, heavier, and far less familiar than he remembers.Tessa never expected the man from Chicago to reappear inside the postflight reintegration program she helped design.The moment she recognizes him, she discloses their past and removes herself from his individual evaluation. Professionally, the boundary is clear.Personally, nothing is.Forced into the same meetings, simulations, and protocol reviews, Tessa and Reid discover that six years have not erased what happened between them. But Reid's future depends on appearing ready, Tessa's career depends on protecting the integrity of the program, and neither of them can afford to confuse care with control.As the distance between them narrows, they must decide whether honesty can survive desire-and whether coming home means returning to who they were or choosing somewhere new to belong.Terms of Reentry is an emotional, slow-burn contemporary romance featuring an astronaut hero, a brilliant behavioral psychologist, workplace tension, second chances, hard-won trust, open-door intimacy, and a deeply satisfying happily ever after.