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No secure place…Acclaimed terraformer Anika Bowman operates from her partner's murders to some remote, uninhabited world. However Chief Billy Murphy, the final guy to see her husband living, crash lands on her faraway destination and kills her illusions of safety.Captain Billy Murphy knows who murdered her husband. He really wants to conserve Anika if he may, but first she's to forget about yesteryear,This novelette first appeared in the Mammoth Book of Advanced Love, and is combined here with a plus tale -- "The Success of Arachne," first printed in the June 2012 problem of Penumbra Journal.