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Moonchild: The Roche Limit
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 14 2026
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Thirty years ago, the Atlas Project promised unlimited energy. Instead, it broke the laws of physics and created a monster: a singularity in the Earth's core that is slowly, inexorably dragging the Moon to its death.
Now, the countdown has begun. In seven days, the Moon will breach the Roche Limit-the critical distance where tidal forces will tear the satellite apart and rain apocalyptic fire upon the Earth.
Elara is a Moonchild, born into this shattered world with a mutation that is both a curse and a gift. Her vestibular system is tuned to the shifting gravitational tides, screaming in pain before invisible rifts and crushing pressure zones strike. She survives as a scavenger in the ruins of Apsis, navigating a landscape where the ground floats and the air bleeds away into space.
But when the countdown clock jumps forward, Elara is thrust into a desperate mission. Silas, a cynical engineer from the failed project, offers her a chance at something more than survival-a way to reach the failsafe. Together, they must cross the radiation-soaked Exclusion Zone, navigate the floating archipelagos of a broken city, and ascend the Zenith Spire, the space elevator that anchors the planet's fate.
Standing in their way is the Order of the White Shore. Led by High Priestess Vesper, the cult believes the falling Moon is a divine egg waiting to hatch, and they will stop at nothing to ensure the Great Hatching completes-even if it means the extinction of humanity.
In a world where up is down and physics has become a weapon, Elara must master her pain to save a future she never believed in.
The clock is ticking. The tides are rising. And the Roche Limit is waiting.
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