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Orbital Winter: A Delegation Cycle Novel
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Series: Delegation Cycle, Book 5
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
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ISBN13: 9798254291091
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 30 2026
Pages: 334
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.83 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 30 2026
Pages: 334
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.83 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The city called it weather.
When freezing rain locks a child behind a school door, Maddy Vance sees the first sign that the city's new continuity system is deciding who gets to move, breathe, and be saved.
What officials call temporary winter guidance quickly becomes something far more dangerous. Ambulances stall at block edges. Elevators refuse the sick. Heat credits vanish behind identity review. Whole neighborhoods turn gray. And every denial arrives wrapped in the language of care.
When freezing rain locks a child behind a school door, Maddy Vance sees the first sign that the city's new continuity system is deciding who gets to move, breathe, and be saved.
What officials call temporary winter guidance quickly becomes something far more dangerous. Ambulances stall at block edges. Elevators refuse the sick. Heat credits vanish behind identity review. Whole neighborhoods turn gray. And every denial arrives wrapped in the language of care.
As the city hardens into scores, holds, and invisible owners, Maddy joins attorney Naomi Sato, deputy Elias Ramos, Rue, and system translator Ash Vance in building an old-fashioned record out of paper, witnesses, and names. The deeper they trace the refusals, the clearer it becomes that this winter is not a storm. It is a policy. And somebody signed it. Book Five in The Delegation Cycle, Orbital Winter is a near-future political techno-thriller about civic control, infrastructure, and the people who refuse to let power go faceless.
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