[participant in Spr 2024 Royal Road Writathon challenge] Workaholic high school student learning programming, Ella Farnsworth, stays busy to cope with her dysfunctional family. Farley gives her a pocket computer the day SETI discovered aliens. When he offers her a ride home, he reveals her future. Suddenly, to save his life, she has to marry him and she and her family travel to his home. His people moved to a new world and healers need her skills to save lives. Nothing about the memories she has of their marriage and where they live is the same, except her love for her new husband, and fear of his death.