The Drift
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Dr. Kristina Hale has spent six months watching Earth's orbit unravel, and six months being told she's wrong. When the IceCube Observatory finally confirms what she's been seeing in the data, the world doesn't thank her. It turns on her.
Branded a doomsayer, driven underground by media and ridicule, Kristina holds onto two things: her closest friend Jessie, and a truth too large to stay quiet. Because the Earth is drifting. And someone has to decide what comes next.
What comes next is Haven, cities carved into the rock, lit by fusion, fed by hydroponic farms. A new world built in the bones of the old one. But survival is only the beginning. The harder question is what you carry with you into the dark - and what you finally let go.
The Drift is a novel about grief and necessity, about science and faith, about the long patience required to be right before anyone is ready to believe you.
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