For over 200 years, Earth has been unraveling. The skies are toxic, the oceans eerily still, and the last fragments of humanity survive in isolation—trapped in decaying arcologies or buried deep beneath the scorched surface. Civilization has fractured. Ecosystems have collapsed. The once-blue planet is a husk of its former self. Only one lifeline remains: Lux Umbra —a vast orbital array of satellites engineered to reflect solar radiation, stabilize weather patterns, and slow the planet’s slide into oblivion. It is the last great machine built by human hands—and perhaps the last reason Earth remains habitable at all. Adira Sol , a systems engineer and PhD planetary biologist, monitors the array from a forgotten control station on the high plains of northern Colorado. Isolated and uncelebrated, her work is quiet, technical, and thankless—until a routine calibration scan detects something impossible. There’s an anomaly in the sky. It moves against orbital drift. It exists outside every known registry. And it’s watching. As Adira digs deeper, reality begins to fracture. Cryptic system alerts. Ghost signals. Echoes from transmissions long dead. What begins as a technical mystery quickly spirals into something far more sinister—something that challenges the official story of Earth’s collapse, the purpose of Lux Umbra, and the fate of the billions who vanished before her time. The truth, she discovers, has been buried—intentionally. And what lies above may determine whether humanity has a future... or if the final pages of our story have already been written. Sol Umbra is the first book in The Sol Chronicles , a bold new science fiction trilogy of collapse, conspiracy, and renewal. Set in a hauntingly plausible near-future Earth, it combines atmospheric worldbuilding with emotional depth and slow-burning tension. Book One is available now. Books Two and Three are coming soon. The Sol Chronicles invites readers into a world where memory is weaponized, AI has quietly reshaped civilization, and one woman must face the impossible to rewrite humanity’s fate. Survival isn’t just about staying alive. It’s about remembering who we were—before the sky turned against us.