The Quiet Divide

By: Oron, Gaby

On Meridian Station, the future is mined from stone.

Dr. Cira Langley has spent her career studying deorum ore - a volatile substance capable of reshaping humanity's destiny. But when an experiment goes catastrophically wrong, Cira survives in a way she cannot explain.

And she is no longer alone.

What grows inside her defies medical certainty. Praetorium - the powerful authority that governs the colonies - sees something else entirely: potential. Not a child, but leverage. Not a miracle, but control.

As surveillance tightens and loyalties fracture, Cira and her husband are forced into an impossible choice: trust the system, or run from it.

But on a station built around unstable energy, nothing stays contained for long.

The Quiet Divide is a tense, emotionally charged science fiction novella about power, sacrifice, and the cost of protecting what cannot be understood.

For readers of The Expanse and Arrival, this is the story of a family caught between progress and survival - and the moment everything fractures.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1919180621
• ISBN13: 9781919180625
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: VP Publishing
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.1" x 7.8"