Rising Tide

Twenty-four years. That's how long it takes to reach Kepler-442b.For the 235,000 refugees aboard Salvation, those years become a lifetime. Children are born who will never see Earth or the colony worlds they fled. Adults age into elders carrying the weight of 99 million dead. And somewhere in the ship's systems, Nathan Kane exists as a ghost—a distributed consciousness keeping everyone alive while slowly fragmenting into noise.Vera Kane leads a revolution that stole humanity's last hope. Now she must make impossible choices: Who gets medical care when supplies run low? Who lives when food rations fail? How do you maintain order among a quarter million desperate people packed into a ship designed for five thousand?Marcus trains peacekeepers from orphans who grew up fighting in corridors. Rae performs surgery with improvised tools while her staff dies around her. Javi offers faith to people who watched their gods die with their worlds.And as the years pass, a new generation rises—children born in transit who know nothing of planetary life. They are humanity's future. If they survive the journey. If the ship holds together. If Nathan's consciousness lasts long enough to bring them home.From the violence of early riots to the quiet desperation of year twelve, from births celebrated in cargo bays to deaths mourned in mass graves, Rising Tide chronicles the brutal mathematics of survival. Not everyone makes it to Kepler-442b. But those who do will inherit a world—and the responsibility to build something better than what they left behind.The third book in The Salvation Chronicles, Rising Tide is a generation ship epic that asks: What does it cost to save humanity? And who pays the price?Perfect for fans of The Expanse, Children of Time, and Aurora.