Ferrous requiem

They went down to fix a wound the world didn't know it had. They knew they might not come back. They didn't know it was already decided for them.

The Earth's magnetic field is dying — not fading the way it should, but collapsing on a timeline that has no business existing in nature. Geophysicist Idris Kalu is the first to see the truth buried in the data: something artificial is choking the planet's core.

Six strangers are sent four thousand kilometres straight down to fix it — through crust, mantle, and a sea of liquid iron, in a vessel built from technology nobody outside a locked boardroom was ever supposed to see. Commander Mara Voss has a promise to keep to her daughter. Kalu is finishing the work of the mentor he lost. And the corporate liaison riding with them is carrying a secret that could unmake the mission before it starts.

The plan is simple: deploy, stabilise, return. The plan was a lie before they ever launched.

Ferrous Requiem is a hard-edged descent thriller about the cost of fixing what other people broke — and the six people who paid it so the rest of the world never had to.

📖 119 pages