The Edge of Zenith: A Forbidden Space Station Romance

Earth is gone. What remains of humanity lives inside colossal orbital cylinders, from gilded space spires to the burning engine decks that keep the sky turning. On Zenith, luxury is a climate setting and class is a sealed hatch.

When the gardens of the upper Spires frost overnight, heiress Seraphine Hale is ordered to stand beside the repair and keep the family name clean. The man sent to fix her world is Kael Riven, stoic chief engineer from the core, the one who wrote the fail-safes that should have stopped the cold. He resents the summons. She refuses to be scenery. Neither expects the climate failure to be tidy, coordinated, and aimed at Hale holdings.

Forced together through failing atriums, locked observation glass, and corridors the station was never meant to vent, they find a different kind of drift. Competence turns to heat. Heat turns to a choice that crosses every line the cylinder was built to hold. Above them, a corporate faction is writing a rescue that is not a rescue. Below them, the core still sings. Between them, the most unstable system on Zenith is no longer the weather.

As proof surfaces and the Spires begin to crack in public, Seraphine and Kael must decide what they will risk: the old order that keeps the lights pretty, or the truth that could cost them air, name, and each other.

When the station itself becomes a weapon, can a woman born to glass floors and a man forged in engine heat hold on to more than survival?

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Earth didn't make it. What's left of humanity spins through the dark inside colossal orbital megastructures, massive steel cylinders with artificial skies, built when survival demanded the impossible and delivered it just barely.

The Orbital Hearts series lives inside those structures, from the dizzying heights of luxury space spires to the gritty depths of engine cores where the walls vibrate and the air smells like recycled metal. High-stakes danger, forbidden desires, and love that hits harder than any hull breach.

Even in a technological Eden, the most volatile force in the universe turns out to be the human heart.

Scorching passion. The ultimate frontier. Welcome aboard.

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E-bog: 5. september 2026