The Helix Engine
Beneath Europa's frozen shell, a salvaged drone carries a secret that could fracture the silence between Earth and the stars. Ilara Voss is a maintenance pilot whose drone, Echo, is her only companion at depths where methane claws at the hull and corporate silence rules the colony. When Echo begins surfacing anomalies that were buried long before Ilara was born, fragments of a discovery the station has been ordered to forget, she finds herself caught between Hadrian Quill, the executive who knows too much, and Mendel Rao, whose loyalty is as unstable as the ice above them. As the signals grow louder and the ocean pushes back, Ilara must choose: drag the truth to the surface and watch the colony tear itself apart, or surrender the find and preserve the only home she has left.