Child of Solus - Softcover

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When Planet Rishia died, Erin was the one who saw the incoming danger before the system did. That made her valuable to the Federation.

Erin is an orphan who survives on Rishia by finding use in what richer worlds discard. When a luxury waste shipment conceals a planetary poison, her ability to see patterns saves the children of Tenth House—and exposes a catastrophe the Federation cannot ignore.

Evacuated and separated from the only family she has known, Erin is sent to Solus, a wealthy agricultural world where scientists discover her gift can see the patterns in DNA.

Then a crop crisis threatens two planets.

Veyqara has money, contracts, and influence. Gessibay has starving children and a place at the back of the line.

Erin can design a living solution. The Federation expects her to save the world it considers important. Erin intends to help the one it has chosen to abandon.

G.R.A.P.—the artificial intelligence created to represent forgotten worlds—begins questioning the rules it was built to enforce, while Erin must choose between obeying the system that rescued her and breaking its laws for people with no power.

Child of Solus is a character-driven science fiction novel about found family, ecological survival, genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, and the dangerous difference between being useful and being valued.

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