Final Orbit

They thought they had one more year.

Horizon Station—Earth’s oldest continuously crewed outpost—is weeks from decommissioning when an unexpected solar event cripples ground communications and knocks a classified satellite from orbit. With rescue windows collapsing, Commander Aya Kade must hold together a skeleton crew tasked only with locking the lights and leaving.

But the station is no longer just a relic.

Fragments from the failed defense satellite begin spiraling into a decay corridor that will pepper the planet’s most densely populated latitudes. The only platform positioned to map, predict, and avert a cascading debris storm is the very structure slated for atmospheric disposal. As aging modules groan and power budgets bleed, Horizon becomes both shield and target—its hull the thin frontier between order and orbital catastrophe.

In their final orbit, every choice counts.

Aya and her diverse, weary team must cannibalize the station’s dying systems for one last improvised maneuver—trading their guaranteed ride home for a narrow chance to divert the storm. Final Orbit is a taut, luminous thriller about legacy, sacrifice, and the fragile thread binding a planet to the people who quietly guard it from above.