The Price of One Earth

What if saving your world meant losing others?
Earth is coming apart. A rogue black hole, Gorgon, is dragging the oceans from their beds and tearing at the planet's crust. Project Epicycle has built a defence lattice that could save what is left, but it cannot be switched on without exotic matter found only at the edge of Gorgon.

Dr. Maya Roy joins the crew of the Aries-IV to bring it home. She is also looking for Leo Vance, her partner, whose scout ship Daedalus vanished into the singularity five years ago.

Near Gorgon, a signal answers. Leo is alive, bound into a phenomenon that links Earth to other inhabited worlds. Taking the matter will save one Earth and end the rest. And someone at home has known that for years.

With fuel running low and a second world pleading for its life across the signal, the crew must decide what they owe to people they can only glimpse, and what they are willing to carry afterwards.

The Price of One Earth is a novel about love, loss, and what we owe to the worlds we will never see. It is character-driven science fiction for readers who like their big ideas to cost something.