The Ice Worm Ranchers of Europa
A Jovian Moon Adventure

About this book:

On the fractured ice shell of Europa, twelve-year-old Kona Vance doesn't just help run her family's ranch—she herds three-meter bioluminescent worms through lightless trenches forty meters down, harvesting the room-temperature superconductor silk that powers the outer planets. It's a lonely, lethal life between Jupiter's radiation belts and a hidden ocean, but Kona knows every fracture, every thermal vent, every pulse of the herd. Then the ice shelf tears open.

A catastrophic plate shift severs the main shaft, buries the harvest, and cuts Kona off from the surface habitat where her father fights a failing power grid. With the herd panicking into a crimson stampede, a damaged skiff, and the Jovian magnetosphere screaming static over the radio, the only way out is down—through an abandoned, lightless maintenance tunnel that hasn't been cleared in a decade. To survive, Kona must become more than a rancher's daughter: she has to drive thousands of tons of living neon silk through the dark while the moon itself tries to crush them.

*The Ice Worm Ranchers of Europa* is a gripping, near-future survival adventure that blends the grit of a frontier western with the wonder of deep-space exploration. For readers who love competent young protagonists, hard-science worldbuilding, and the fierce, quiet bond between a family and their unforgiving world—this is the Jovian moon story you've been waiting for.