The Next Sun — a novel by Victor Zan Fernandes

Heliophysicist Helena Marques has spent her life listening to the Sun. When an impossible signature turns up in its spectrum — a chemical fingerprint with no business existing inside a star — she does what she has always done: she checks. Against four independent observatories. Against every instrument she has ever trusted.

The signal is real. It has a date of birth. And it is growing.

In six days, the Helios reactor outside Geneva will ignite the most ambitious fusion reaction in human history. The physics is correct. The engineers are brilliant. The safety reviews are impeccable.

And Helena is running out of time to explain why none of that matters.