Green Eyes, Black Brand

When Skye receives gender-affirming surgery as a child, she's branded on the inside of her cheek, forever marking her as theirs. Bioware and gene editing can eradicate disease and transform lives. All for the simple price of loyalty. To resist will cost the people everything the government has given to them, often their very lives. Skye refuses to live in fear. Undergoing grueling training to become a member of the resistance, she joins a secret force hidden within the government's military itself. Nothing can shake her determination to bring freedom to her people, except perhaps the infuriatingly haughty recruit she can't stop thinking about. Love is a just sacrifice in war. At least, Skye always told herself so.