As genetic collapse threatens the outer colonies, corporations turn to a ruthless solution: enforced genetic reinforcement, framed as duty and disguised as progress. Young adults are drafted, matched, and sent outward to stabilise settlements on the brink of failure.
Taro Brooke never volunteered.
Dragged under an old matching protocol to the mining world of Demeter, she arrives at a colony that governs itself in uneasy balance and at a planet that does not behave as expected. Demeter’s wealth lies underground, but so do its silences. Mining records don’t align. Restricted zones multiply. And some areas are sealed not for profit, but for containment.
Cole Serros, heir to one of Demeter’s founding families, waited six years before claiming his match. He insists the delay was necessary. He refuses to explain why. As corporate oversight begins to close in, Taro finds herself trapped between a system that owns her body and a world that seems to be watching from below.
Surveillance tightens. Loyalties fracture. And whatever Demeter is hiding beneath its surface is not as dormant as the corporations believe.
Demeter is the first novel in the Lost Colonies series. A character-driven science-fiction story blending slow-burn tension with themes of autonomy, coercion, and the dangers of digging too deep.
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Release Date: Saturday 27th of December 2025.