Astra Echoes The Quiet Divide, (Paperback)

<p><strong>On Meridian Station, the future is mined from stone.</strong></p><p>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.</p><p>And she is no longer alone.</p><p>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.</p><p>As surveillance tightens and loyalties fracture, Cira and her husband are forced into an impossible choice: trust the system, or run from it.</p><p>But on a station built around unstable energy, nothing stays contained for long.</p><p><em>The Quiet Divide</em> is a tense, emotionally charged science fiction novella about power, sacrifice, and the cost of protecting what cannot be understood.</p><p>For readers of <em>The Expanse</em> and <em>Arrival</em>, this is the story of a family caught between progress and survival - and the moment everything fractures.</p>

• Astra Echoes The Quiet Divide, (Paperback)
• Author: VP Publishing
• ISBN: 9781919180625
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-02-12
• Page Count: 146