The Black Meadow

Seventeen-year-old Tilda Ruskin maintains machines she's forbidden to understand—until the sky cracks open and she glimpses stars no one was supposed to see. Apprenticed to the Wheelwrights aboard a generation ship whose people forgot they were traveling, Tilda discovers their vessel is hurtling past its destination with months to spare. But saving her people means destroying the only world they've ever known: draining rivers, killing orchards, and forcing everyone into the terrifying unknown of a real planet. With a dying AI navigator, a salvage boy carrying impossible secrets, and a ruling class determined to preserve a beautiful lie, Tilda must choose between paradise and survival.