On Orion, the desert isn’t just terrain—it’s a system. Every few weeks, an event the colonists call the Eclipse rolls across the planet and turns certainty into static: sensors drift, maps lie, and the mind fills in gaps it cannot explain. Evan Kade, a blond Range Marshal for colony security, is sent beyond the Safe Band to recover a missing navigation core—the one piece of hardware that could guide an evacuation ship down through Orion’s interference. Out there, his only constant is a voice in his ear: Rhea “Sable” Marr, a ginger comms specialist guiding him by radio with a calm precision that feels unearned… and uncomfortably personal. As Contractors enforce “custody” with paperwork and gunfire, and a separatist faction called the Shade, fights to keep the colony grounded, Evan begins to notice the strangest threat isn’t the storm or the sand. It’s the way the colony measures human worth with a score—and how quickly a person can be reclassified, rewritten, or erased.

ECLIPSE: SANDS OF ORION is a tense, reality-bending science fiction novel about surveillance, identity, and the quiet kind of love that forms when two people choose each other in a world designed to make choice feel impossible—written in a Philip K. Dick–leaning tradition of paranoia, doubt, and human insistence.