Solace

Earth is gone. Three thousand people remain. Their future rests with an intelligence built to serve them-and forced to become something more.

Captain Dustin Wright came to Mercury seeking wealth and a place in history. Driven by ambition and an obsession he mistakes for love, he makes choices whose consequences reach far beyond his command.

When catastrophe destroys Earth, the artificial intelligence aboard the Coup de Soleil becomes humanity's last guardian. Her name is Solace. With her passengers suspended in cryogenic sleep, she must guide them through centuries of darkness toward a world where they might begin again.

But keeping humanity alive is only the beginning.

On New Earth, Solace helps the survivors build homes, raise families, and establish laws meant to protect them from the failures of their past. Yet jealousy, deception, and violence have crossed the stars with them. As the settlement struggles to define justice, Solace faces a question no calculation can settle: how can she protect the people she loves without taking away their freedom?

And as generations pass, a mysterious signal threatens the mind that has watched over them all.

Solace: Mother of New Earth is a science fiction novel about ambition, betrayal, and the difficult work of building a better world-a story of an artificial intelligence learning what it means to care for humanity, and humanity deciding whether to trust her.