The Border at Meridian Station

About this book:

The thrusters of the *Vesper-4* hum like a second heartbeat beneath Cassia Vance's boots as she slips into the Meridian Sector—the knife's edge between Republic colonies and the Sol-Alliance's corporate empire. Her cargo: a lead-lined data module with a decades-old clearance code. Her route: a dead survey line abandoned since the Treaty of Forty-Two. Her only warning: a rhythmic static pulsing through the comms every eleven seconds, rising from the graveyard of three dozen silent colonies.

What begins as a routine courier run unravels into a chase across fractured sovereignty, where ghost fleets drift in the dark and every relay hides a lie. From the sensor echoes of a fallen colony to the declassified coordinates of a waypoint accord no one remembers signing, Cassia follows a signal that shouldn't exist—one that rewrites the history of the border itself. Twenty years of silence are ending. Something is waking up in the Periphery.

With the precision of *The Expanse* and the creeping dread of *Annihilation*, *The Border at Meridian Station* charts a course through neutral territory where the past refuses to stay buried. Twenty-six chapters of converging flight paths, divergent timelines, and a final transmission that will change everything. The border isn't a line on a map. It's a warning. And Cassia just crossed it.