When Ariadne escapes the isolated compound where she was created, she becomes a liability her corporate creators cannot afford to lose. Engineered to survive environments humanity was never meant to inhabit, Ariadne is tracked, captured, and absorbed into a system that sees her not as a person, but as proof of concept.
On the distant world of Khepri-9, Atlas is fighting his own quiet rebellion. Bound to a planet-shaping technology that responds only to him, Atlas begins to uncover life beneath the surface that corporate oversight insists does not exist, and orders him to erase it anyway.
Tartaros is a standalone science-fiction novel set within the Lost Colonies universe, combining grit, high-stakes worldbuilding, and a slow-burn romantic undercurrent.
