“One signal. One chance before the heat wins.”

Life on Erid has reshaped Ryland Grace into something between a scientist, a teacher, and a survivor. He spends his cycles navigating blistering heat, alien engineering, and the constant hum of Eridian machinery. But when a lone distress signal cuts through the static—human-like, desperate, and far too close to the planet’s deadly atmosphere—Grace realizes he may be the only person capable of preventing a melt‐through catastrophe.