Apple's Interstellar Legend

“Many years later, I still often think of that beautiful blue planet, of the clusters of peyote beneath the towering bald cypresses, and of the row of reef cottages surrounded by the azure sea.

My name is Apple. I've never liked it, but Mom said it was the most beautiful name on Gaia, one given only to the prettiest girls.”

A pair of keen, deep-green eyes gazed at her. He had once been the leader of the rebels. They met when they were young, and he left without hesitation. But when he returned, the silver-haired woman before him, gentle as water, had become the Empress of the Stars.

He declared imperiously, “Apple, you're mine!”

She furrowed her brow in confusion. “Who are you?”

The temptation of Eden, the growth of an interstellar queen.