Meridian and the Dark Frontier
Paperback
Series: Meridian
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 30 2026
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The gate was closed.
The war did not stop.
Beyond the edge of the Solar System, something is waiting.
Captain Julian Harrow and the crew of the ISS Meridian thought denying the ancient gateway would buy humanity time. Instead, it revealed a far more dangerous truth: the enemy does not need the door open to begin the invasion.
Across the outer reaches of the branch, strange systems are waking.
A ghost convoy that shouldn't exist.
A drowned city beneath Europa that remembers too much.
A black asteroid that hunts passing ships.
A prison built over something older-and far worse.
A fleet of dead vessels that learns from every rescue attempt.
A broken map that rewrites reality itself.
Each encounter is not random. Each is a lesson.
And all of it is being watched.
As the Meridian pushes deeper into the unknown, Harrow's crew begins to uncover a chilling pattern: the Solar System is being studied, tested, and prepared. Every response, every decision, every victory is feeding something larger waiting beyond the last known routes.
Then they find it.
A warship.
Not a scout. Not a probe.
An exemplar.
And beyond it... a fleet.
Now the line between defence and survival is razor-thin. The frontier is no longer distant-it is here. And humanity's first line of resistance has already been measured.
The question is no longer if the enemy will come.
It's whether anything can stop them when they do.
A cinematic, high-stakes sci-fi adventure blending the spirit of classic space opera with a modern sense of dread and discovery. Perfect for fans of Dan Dare, Flash Gordon, and deep-space mystery with a military edge.
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