Commander Rafi Beltran leads an international crew aboard the Alexandria, a UN space station initially dedicated to climate research that has since shifted to a critical peacekeeping mission. Far from Earth, Rafi grapples with the immense weight of command and his self-doubt, a kid from the Bronx struggling to reconcile his past with his present. Complicating matters is his deeply illicit secret affair with Sylvan Vitale, a captivating and rebellious Luna colonist and a citizen of a sovereign nation viewed as an enemy by Earth's "grounders."
The tenuous global cold war simmers beneath the surface. Still, Rafi and his diverse crew—including the stoic Ren Mori, fiery Eleanore Rivière, conniving Dmitri Sokolov, astute Ji-Woo Kim, and Rafi’s forbidden Lunan lover Sylvan Vitale—strive to maintain their mission, which has become humanity's last hope for preventing outright war. Their daily routines are marked by the station's hum, the vast silence of space, and the petty squabbles that remind Rafi of their shared humanity.
However, this fragile peace shatters when a frantic message from Rafi's best friend and Mission Control operator, Virgil, reveals the unthinkable: Luna has launched a third of its nuclear arsenal, and the cold war has gone nuclear hot. In a terrifying twist, Rafi receives his final, devastating orders: Operation SNOW. He must murder his crewmates, assume their identities, and deceive the warring nations from orbit. Plunged into a living hell, Rafi faces an impossible decision—become a monster to save a fractured humanity, or risk everything for the lives of his crew, including his lover, caught between his loyalty to his country, his planet, and the bonds he's forged in the void.
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