Hull breach

Author : ELIAS K. MARROW

SEVENTY-TWO HOURS. ONE ENGINEER. NO ONE ELSE ALIVE.

Orbiting Venus, 89 million kilometers from home, a single moment of violence tears Cythera Station apart. The crew is gone. The air is leaking. The vehicle that was meant to carry them home is a wreck, and the launch window back to Earth will close in three days. If Teodora “Teo” Vance misses it, the next one is 584 days away. She will not live that long.

Teo is a submarine-trained engineer, stubborn and exhausted, and she is the only person left. She has a cracked ring, a cabin full of dead friends, a tumbling hull, a failing oxygen plant and a margin of fuel as thin as a razor. She has Mission Control in Houston, but every word she sends takes nearly five minutes to arrive, and every answer takes five more. No one can fix this for her. Flight Director Margo Achterberg and her team can only calculate, argue, check the numbers and trust her.

So Teo will do what engineers do. She will patch a hull with the skin of her own bed. She will thaw frozen equipment and fight a fire in a pure-oxygen cabin. She will stop a spin that could tear the ship apart. She will dock, undock and burn, and she will decide which parts of the mission to throw away so that she can live.

HULL BREACH is a relentless, science-driven survival thriller. Every repair, every calculation and every dwindling meter per second of fuel is grounded in real orbital mechanics, real engineering and real physics. The tension never lets go, the problem-solving is clever and grounded, and the human heart is never lost, from the husband waiting in Duluth to the silent crewmate Teo refuses to leave behind.

If you loved the ingenuity of The Martian, the claustrophobic dread of Gravity, the countdown pressure of Apollo 13 and the grit of Project Hail Mary, this is your next unputdownable read.

One woman. One broken ship. Seventy-two hours to get home.

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📖 303 pages