In a world where the Earth's surface has become uninhabitable, humanity survives in floating cities tethered to the atmosphere. When a young climate engineer discovers signs of life returning below, she must decide whether to risk everything to explore the forbidden surface.
The sky was never meant to be home.
Kaelen adjusted the seal on her oxygen mask and leaned into the wind. The tetherline
swayed beneath her boots, a thousand meters of braided alloy stretching between the
underside of Port Helia and the outer solar farm. She was used to the height—everyone
born in the Sky Cities learned to walk before they learned to fall—but today, the wind
had teeth. A low groan vibrated through the line, a sound like the Earth mourning below
Published on 2025-10-30 by Jam eBooks