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Children of the Lunar Rift
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 17 2025
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When the Moon awakened, humanity's destiny fractured.
In Children of the Lunar Rift, award-winning storyteller Viktoryia Konan fuses science-fiction suspense with mythic fantasy to create an epic saga of discovery, loss, and rebirth.
In 1993, NASA's Hermes-9 mission vanished after uncovering an impossible structure beneath the Sea of Rains-a smooth metallic vault carved with symbols no language could decipher. What the crew awakened that night was not a machine, but a memory: the imprisoned will of Nivra Asteron, the forgotten Queen of the Rift.
Thirty years later, her whisper returns.
Across six continents, ordinary lives begin to unravel.
- Kayden Holt, the son of Hermes-9's missing commander, finds a crystal burning with lunar light.
- Talia Venn, a London cyber-engineer, decodes impossible data streaming from the dark side of the Moon.
- Eden Park, Kaia Moreno, Rylan Pierce, and Orin Vale awaken to powers bound to the ancient elements-earth, water, lightning, and shadow.
Drawn together by repeating dreams of a mountain named Kairos, the six discover they are heirs to the first guardians who sealed the Lunar Rift ten thousand years ago. Their connection is more than coincidence-it is reincarnation, written into the pulse of the planet itself.
But Nivra is no myth. From her black-glass palace above the Moon's far side, she rebuilds an army of sentient dust and fractured light. Her goal is not conquest, but reversal-to make Earth orbit the Moon and rewrite creation itself.
As fire meets storm, ocean meets stone, and memory meets destiny, the Children of the Rift must learn to master the elements within them or witness the collapse of both worlds. Between cosmic terror and human courage lies the narrow bridge of balance-the only weapon that can close the Rift... or open it forever.
Blending the scientific wonder of Interstellar and 2001: A Space Odyssey with the mythic resonance of Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Witcher, Children of the Lunar Rift is a sweeping novel of cosmic mystery, elemental power, and the unbreakable threads of destiny.
Perfect for readers who crave epic world-building, cinematic imagery, and character-driven adventure, this first book in the Lunar Rift Chronicles launches a breathtaking saga where science meets myth-and the Moon remembers everything humanity has tried to forget.
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