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MOONBASE AI: A Sweet & Cozy Lesbian Romance Set in a Sci-Fi Workplace
"I don't sleep well during lockdowns," Eliana says.
"Neither do I," says Shu.
The base is sealed. The particle storm is raging outside. There is nowhere to be, no reactor to check, no political temperature to manage. Just a small common room. Two chairs. An aurora through the porthole — charged particles striking the lunar regolith, making brief and beautiful light out of something that would otherwise kill you.
Eliana makes tea, because she has learned that this is a language Shu understands.
Shu accepts it without comment.
And then — time.
Shu Li has spent forty-three years building things that hold. Structures. Systems. Walls.
She is the head engineer of Moonbase Ài — China's fourth and final lunar base, named by popular vote after the Chinese word for love, which surprised everyone including Shu. She has forty-seven days to bring humanity's first Chinese-built nuclear reactor online, a crew she would die for, and absolutely no patience for anything that isn't the work.
She is not prepared for Dr. Eliana Vega.
The first non-Chinese national ever invited to work on the lunar programme, Eliana is everything Shu is warm where Shu is contained, expressive where Shu is precise, at ease in every room she enters — including the ones Shu has spent years making impenetrable. She is also, Shu will reluctantly admit, the most exceptional scientist she has ever worked alongside. And someone is trying to destroy her career before it begins.
When accidents start happening on the base — escalating from equipment failures to something darker — suspicion falls on the outsider. Shu knows better. What she doesn't know is what to do about the thing quietly building between them, the one she keeps filing under professional respect until that compartment will no longer close.
Meanwhile, 400 miles to the south, the corporate base's AI has been alone for three years. And the Moonbase AI has just sent a calibration query that was fractionally longer than technically necessary.
MOONBASE ÀI is a cozy, slow-burn romance set among the stars — for readers who believe the future should be worth living in, that found family is the most revolutionary act, and that love, like the best engineering, holds better than you expected.
✔️ FF Romance — Women Loving Women
✔️ Slow Burn
✔️ Age Gap (43 / 32)
✔️ Chinese Protagonist
✔️ Hopepunk Sci-Fi
✔️ Found Family
✔️ Low Spice, High Feeling
✔️ Enemies to Allies to Something More
✔️ AI Subplot / Dual Love Story
✔️ No Dystopia — Optimistic Future
✔️ STEM Women in STEM
✔️ Cozy Sci-Fi
"Neither do I," says Shu.
The base is sealed. The particle storm is raging outside. There is nowhere to be, no reactor to check, no political temperature to manage. Just a small common room. Two chairs. An aurora through the porthole — charged particles striking the lunar regolith, making brief and beautiful light out of something that would otherwise kill you.
Eliana makes tea, because she has learned that this is a language Shu understands.
Shu accepts it without comment.
And then — time.
Shu Li has spent forty-three years building things that hold. Structures. Systems. Walls.
She is the head engineer of Moonbase Ài — China's fourth and final lunar base, named by popular vote after the Chinese word for love, which surprised everyone including Shu. She has forty-seven days to bring humanity's first Chinese-built nuclear reactor online, a crew she would die for, and absolutely no patience for anything that isn't the work.
She is not prepared for Dr. Eliana Vega.
The first non-Chinese national ever invited to work on the lunar programme, Eliana is everything Shu is warm where Shu is contained, expressive where Shu is precise, at ease in every room she enters — including the ones Shu has spent years making impenetrable. She is also, Shu will reluctantly admit, the most exceptional scientist she has ever worked alongside. And someone is trying to destroy her career before it begins.
When accidents start happening on the base — escalating from equipment failures to something darker — suspicion falls on the outsider. Shu knows better. What she doesn't know is what to do about the thing quietly building between them, the one she keeps filing under professional respect until that compartment will no longer close.
Meanwhile, 400 miles to the south, the corporate base's AI has been alone for three years. And the Moonbase AI has just sent a calibration query that was fractionally longer than technically necessary.
MOONBASE ÀI is a cozy, slow-burn romance set among the stars — for readers who believe the future should be worth living in, that found family is the most revolutionary act, and that love, like the best engineering, holds better than you expected.
✔️ FF Romance — Women Loving Women
✔️ Slow Burn
✔️ Age Gap (43 / 32)
✔️ Chinese Protagonist
✔️ Hopepunk Sci-Fi
✔️ Found Family
✔️ Low Spice, High Feeling
✔️ Enemies to Allies to Something More
✔️ AI Subplot / Dual Love Story
✔️ No Dystopia — Optimistic Future
✔️ STEM Women in STEM
✔️ Cozy Sci-Fi
319 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 26, 2026
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