Solstice on Lumei-4: A space opera adventure of corporate chaos and bioluminescent reef-elves by Victoria Vyx

When light-sensitive xenobiologist Bria Marras is misassigned to the tropical water-world of Lumei-4 during its Solstice festivities, she expects nothing more than a week of awkward apologies and corrective paperwork before she can return to her lab. What she gets instead is: *a sacred Solstice signal she misfires directly at the amphibious, bioluminescent heir of the reef-settlement, *a translator device that can’t decide whether it’s describing a mating ritual or a minor security threat, hostile corporate officials trying to reclassify an impending ecological disaster as “legacy infrastructure irregularities,” *a living reef whose ancestral memory is collapsing from within. Drawn into the crisis Bria discovers that her sensory oversensitivity is the only thing capable of interpreting the reef’s failing harmonics. Side-by-side with Ka’tharel, the settlement’s unexpectedly gentle (and unexpectedly bonded) amphibious prince, Bria must navigate prophecy, politics, and catastrophic lightstorms to stop the collapse. Perfect for fans of space opera adventures with a dash of romance, alien/human connection arcs, corporate satire, and soft sci-fi intimacy, Solstice on Lumei-4 is a lush, hopeful, biopunk tale of survival, resonance, and choosing the bonds that choose you back.