Orbital Strain

Alone in space, years from rescue, everyone she knows is missing. While orbiting a newly discovered planet, the Celestus research vessel is plagued with technical mishaps, contaminated samples, and interdepartmental hostility. When an unconscious engineer, found outside the colony domes, is brought up from the surface, Dr. Beth Adler is assigned to his care. With only a sparse incident report to go from, Beth's investigation uncovers two disturbing facts: he needed senior-level authorization to leave the domes, and no known substance on the planet could have punctured his environment suit. As the mounting clues point to sabotage, Beth awakens one day in total darkness, with fragmented memories of the previous day's events. Her ship, now unpowered, is catastrophically damaged, and derelict. The last thing she remembers is the alarm repeating the same horrifying message. "Quarantine breach." With eerie occurrences and inexplicable phenomena haunting its dark corridors, Beth embarks on a perilous journey to save her missing crew-mates. In this gripping sci-fi thriller, join Dr. Beth Adler on an adrenaline-fueled odyssey of survival, mystery, and betrayal amidst a colony on the brink of catastrophe.