LATTICE. SURVIVE. GROW. REPEAT. - Michelle Hoffmann

Most love stories end with a ring. Theirs ends with a launch.

Jessa Hale has two obsessions: music that tells the truth, and plants-because green life feels like proof the world can still be gentle. She's twenty-two, working at a nursery, singing in private, and sketching "impossible" ideas in the margins of her lyrics... until one open-mic night changes everything.

Adrian Cross is a dashing music producer twelve years older, known for turning raw talent into something unstoppable. He hears Jessa once and knows what she is: rare. He offers her a door into his world-studio sessions, real mentorship, real pressure-and Jessa steps through it. Fame follows fast. So does the backlash.

When a rival with money, influence, and a grudge decides Jessa is leverage, the spotlight becomes dangerous. Sabotage, harassment, and a relentless narrative war threaten to reduce her to a headline instead of a human. Jessa refuses. She works. She builds. She writes her way out.

And then Mars stops being a daydream.

Selected for one of the first civilian colony missions, Jessa isn't there to play a role. She brings LatticePod-a fail-soft plant growth system designed to survive dust, power dips, and human fear-because on Mars, morale is life support and green isn't a luxury.

Greenline Protocol: Life Under Two Moons is a near-future sci-fi romance that begins on Earth and culminates on Mars, blending slow-burn chemistry with action, high stakes, and the quiet stubbornness of anything alive.