Children of the Crush

A stellar collapse 140 light-years away gives astrophysicist Dr. Anya Erlandsen nineteen months to save a species—and the government arrests her for telling the truth. Forced underground into a desperate alliance of military officers, rogue geneticists, and deep-sea welders, she must help build ocean-floor habitats for forty thousand people while billions are left to die. But the real battle begins after the hatches seal: in the crushing dark, survival demands more than engineering. It demands deciding what humanity is allowed to become.