the Children of Quiet Star

The adults were supposed to build the future. Instead, their children built one without them.Two hundred years after the colony ship Ardent Dawn reached a new world, the mission crew still sleeps beneath the hull, waiting for the day they are meant to wake and lead humanity into its second chance.Above them, First Hill has already become a world of its own.Raised by Mother Arc, old records, hard laws, and the people who survived the first generations, Ilya has grown up in the shadow of a ship she never chose. She knows the rules of First Hill. She knows no person owns another person's body, labor, origin, memory, or future.Then she learns the truth of her own origin.Her source is Mara Keene, the mission commander still frozen below the ship, a woman the old world remembers as a leader and the child-born world knows as one of the First Mistakes.As awakening draws near, Ilya must face a question no law can answer cleanly: what does she owe the woman who helped begin her life but never chose her, raised her, or knew she existed?The Children of the Quiet Star is a haunting science fiction novel about origin, consent, inherited power, and the children who built a future while the adults slept.

Pages: 583, Paperback, Independently published