False Spring

Mars is almost ready to breathe.

After thirty years of terraforming, the settlements of Hellas Planitia are approaching the moment humanity has been promised for a generation: False Spring, the final transition toward a living world.

For Atmospheric Maintenance Team Seven, it should be another job.

But when twenty-two-year-old apprentice Ella Vega discovers an anomaly buried inside the biological systems producing Mars's oxygen, the numbers refuse to make sense. What begins as a routine maintenance investigation leads the crew into restricted files, missing samples and a hidden control architecture woven through the very systems keeping thousands of people alive.

The closer they get to the truth, the more dangerous it becomes.

False Spring was never designed simply to transform Mars.

And the people who built humanity's new Eden may never have intended its workers to inherit it.

With communications closing, security tightening and the transition approaching, Team Seven must decide how far they are willing to go to get the evidence off Mars before the system activates.

Because once False Spring begins, there may be no way to stop it.

And no one left to tell Earth what really happened.

FALSE SPRING is a tense science-fiction thriller about survival, corporate power, sacrifice and the human cost of building a new world. For readers who enjoy grounded near-future science fiction, dangerous conspiracies and ordinary people forced into impossible choices.