+ NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement Award Best Sci-fi, Summer 2025

+ BookFest Award 2025, Best Sci-fi, Genetic Engineering and Future Technology

A gripping sci-fi thriller about who owns life, what makes us human, and how far we’ll go to protect the next generation.

Alien alliances, corporate secrets, and a vault that could rewrite evolution.

Will Teagan Ward protect her daughter—or lose her to a war between worlds?

Space was meant to save us. Instead, it’s where the next war begins.

And one mother’s love may be the last defense of human freedom.

+ From the award-winning author of BORN in SPACE:

When competing forces vie to control human evolution, Teagan Ward is thrust into the heart of the conflict. Once a captive on the Moon, she was subjected to genetic experiments—but the true prize wasn’t her. It was her young daughter, Diana, created to survive in deep space and lead a new breed of humanity.

Now the ruthless Consortium wants her back.

As Earth reels from climate collapse and resource shortages, powerful forces converge to control ecosystems, genetic blueprints, and identity itself. Their prize: the Seed Vault, a lunar repository containing the last viable genetic codes for Earth’s crops, food supplies—and maybe humanity’s future.

But it’s not just humans who covet the Vault’s valuable contents.

Protests erupt. Alliances fracture. And Teagan, seeking refuge among the Tritans—an endangered alien species—must protect Diana at all costs.

In a battle for survival, what remains of humanity may not be who we were—but who we choose to become.

The vault is the code. The seed eclipse is the signal. The child is the key.

And the question remains: Who owns Life? The corporations trying to patent it? The AIs trying to shape it? Or the mother fighting to protect it?

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