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The Third Observer by G. G. Yonge

an emotional soft sci-fi with a forced proximity romance

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2ZYF42

Free on Kindle Unlimited! Available for purchase on Kindle & Paperback

Blurb:
If you could redo every moment, would love mean anything at all?

When astronauts Annie and Emmett crash-land on Noether, they have one thing in common: neither can survive it alone. Forced into a reluctant partnership on a planet whose spores are hunted by every space agency on Earth, they slowly learn to navigate the terrain — and each other. Until they discover the spores make it possible to revisit moments in time.

An injury can be reversed. A conversation can be tried again. The future begins to feel less fixed.

What begins as a tool for survival becomes something more consuming, drawing Annie into a growing need to correct her mistakes and reshape what has already happened, while Emmett grows wary of what each revision leaves behind. As their chances of escape narrow, they are forced to confront what it means to love when there are no do-overs.

Set on a world caught in its own repetitions, The Third Observer follows two people learning that love derives its meaning not in spite of time's limits, but because of them.

If you loved Recursion by Blake Crouch but wanted the relationship to be the emotional core this is the vibe!