On the Night the Stars Mock, the Marionette Falls in Love

On a forgotten planet at the edge of the stars, one boy's love is the kind legends are made of—and the kind that could get him killed. Kafka has never met the woman who shares his name. He doesn't need to. Ever since he intercepted a single, grainy transmission aboard the legendary Astral Express, he's devoted every quiet, freezing night in the Scrap Belt's drifting wreckage to one impossible promise: to watch over the huntress Kafka from afar, even if she never learns he exists. A stowaway wit