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The Quiet Divide
Paperback
Series: Astra Echoes
Publisher Price: $10.99
ISBN13: 9781919180625
Publisher: VP Publishing
Published: Feb 12 2026
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
On Meridian Station, the future is mined from stone.
Dr. Cira Langley has spent her career studying deorum ore - a volatile substance capable of reshaping humanity's destiny. But when an experiment goes catastrophically wrong, Cira survives in a way she cannot explain.
And she is no longer alone.
What grows inside her defies medical certainty. Praetorium - the powerful authority that governs the colonies - sees something else entirely: potential. Not a child, but leverage. Not a miracle, but control.
As surveillance tightens and loyalties fracture, Cira and her husband are forced into an impossible choice: trust the system, or run from it.
But on a station built around unstable energy, nothing stays contained for long.
The Quiet Divide is a tense, emotionally charged science fiction novella about power, sacrifice, and the cost of protecting what cannot be understood.
For readers of The Expanse and Arrival, this is the story of a family caught between progress and survival - and the moment everything fractures.
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