The Seventh Sun

Billions compete for a single seat on the last ship to Mars—but the prize may be humanity's darkest lie. Zoe Ritter, a twenty-two-year-old mechanic from a drowning coastal arcology, enters the Helios Corporation's brutal VR competition to save her dying sister. As she fights through pop-culture gauntlets and moral trials, she uncovers a conspiracy that could shatter the world's last hope—or set it free.