An outbreak. A failing system. A girl caught between worlds.

On the 88th anniversary of Earth’s destruction, Quinta Stone receives her colony assignment – and her death sentence.

She was supposed to follow in her father’s footsteps, searching for a cure to Glass, the mutating Martian illness that has haunted the colony since the first settlers landed on Mars. Instead, the AI governing the colony sends her into the regolith to carve out new living space for a swelling population.

But Glass lingers in the dust. It’s fatal, and it’s already decimated the colony twice.

And the AI knows it.

As secrets unravel, tensions rise between classes, and her father’s legacy is called into question, Quinta must decide what she’s willing to risk: her safety, her silence, or the truth.

Glassborn is the explosive first novel in The Glassborn Chronicles – a character-driven dystopian epic about legacy, control, and what survives when freedom is forbidden.

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December 2, 2025
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