{"product_id":"the-silent-orbit-elara-moonridge-9798247010081","title":"The Silent Orbit: A Midlife Science Fiction Romance","description":"Paige Holloway was used to quiet systems: library catalogs, town ordinances, the soft machinery of everyday life.\u003cbr\u003eOn Marrowgate Station, quiet means something else. Quiet means the life-support readouts that look stable while they're lying.\u003cbr\u003eQuiet means logs that rewrite themselves between shifts.\u003cbr\u003eQuiet means a corporate \"wellness audit\" that arrives with perfect wording and no real option to refuse.\u003cbr\u003eAt forty-four, Paige didn't come to orbit for reinvention. She came because Earth had become a place where her grief had too many corners.\u003cbr\u003eShe came for clean rules, steady pay, and a job that made sense on paper: compliance, documentation, and keeping people safe through process.\u003cbr\u003eThen the station begins to correct her.\u003cbr\u003eThe first sign is small: a timestamp that changes, a name that gains a middle initial, a report that deletes the sentence where she said no.\u003cbr\u003eThe second sign is personal: a message in her own handwriting that she doesn't remember writing, addressed to a man she hasn't met yet.\u003cbr\u003eAnd when a new maintenance lead arrives-sharp-eyed, careful, and far too familiar with the ways systems can be weaponized-Paige realizes the problem isn't a glitch.\u003cbr\u003eIt's a protocol.\u003cbr\u003eTo survive, Paige has to do what she's always done best: make the truth witnessed.\u003cbr\u003eShe builds a stubborn, analog record in a place that wants everything digital.\u003cbr\u003eShe turns coworkers into allies, routine into resistance, and \"polite\" language into a battlefield.\u003cbr\u003eAnd against the pressure of an orbiting system that keeps trying to isolate her, she finds something she didn't plan for: \u003cbr\u003ea slow-burn connection that feels like oxygen-dangerous to need, impossible to deny, and real enough to fight for.\u003cbr\u003eThe Silent Orbit is a midlife romantic science fiction story about consent, memory, and the quiet violence of bureaucracy-where love isn't a rescue fantasy, but a mutual refusal to disappear.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elara Moonridge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798247010081\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/05\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d","brand":"Elara Moonridge","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50665013543167,"sku":"9798247010081","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-silent-orbit-elara-moonridge-9798247010081","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}