Description
The empire of light is breaking. And in its cracks, rebellion burns.
Helios Dominion has risen from the dust of a desert garage to become a corporate god. It powers cities, commands armies, and controls entire colonies through fear, loyalty, and surveillance. To the billions who depend on its energy, Helios is eternal. But to the broken worlds beneath its shadow, it has become a prison.
On Mars, the city of Ashfall smolders. Once a beacon of Helios power, it now bleeds from the scars of rebellion. Chains rattle in the streets, Sentinels enforce silence, and prisoners are dragged into camps. Yet even in ruin, fire still flickers. Led by survivors who refuse to bow, Ashfall’s embers threaten to ignite into an inferno that could scorch the Dominion itself.
On Titan, storms tear across methane seas as colonists fracture under hunger and grief. Kronhold Fortress—the jewel of Helios control—lies in ruins, but the people are divided. Factions feud, supplies dwindle, and every choice risks betrayal. Yet from the ashes rises Commander Veyra Kael, a leader forged by scars and storms, wielding rebellion like a blade. Titan’s wrath builds with every strike of thunder, ready to break its chains in one final roar.
And on Europa, the Submersed sing their defiance in the black seas beneath the ice. Helios calls their resistance contained, but their sonar chants carry through caverns, echoing across currents and into memory. They have cracked the Crown of Nereid Station, drowned its throne in floods, and lit fire where fire should not burn. The ocean itself now remembers their blood and their flame. Europa has not yielded—it has risen.
Above it all, Julian Crest and Elara Vance stand divided. Crest, the empire’s architect, views rebellion as inefficiency to be crushed at any cost. Vance, once his partner, feels the weight of every compromise. Torn between loyalty and conscience, she must decide if her silence will preserve humanity’s only empire—or doom it to a god made of chains.
Helios Eclipse is the third book in the Helios Dominion series, a sweeping science fiction saga that blends the scope of Dune, the intrigue of Foundation, and the grit of The Expanse. It is a story of rebellion and ruin, of empires born not from nations but from corporations, and of people who refuse to surrender even when the stars themselves seem owned.
From Ashfall’s fire to Titan’s storm to Europa’s song, rebellion rises in the dark. And Helios, for the first time, trembles.
The sun has become an empire. But even empires can burn.
