The Weight of Vertigo

About this book

On The Lattice, a massive rotating habitat where gravity is the ultimate currency and motion is strictly surveilled, biomechanical engineer Dr. Samira Qadir uncovers a deadly anomaly. The station's artificial gravity is glitching in rhythmic, deliberate stutters that threaten to tear the habitat apart. When corporate command dismisses the danger as lower-deck negligence, Samira seeks out Jun Park, a renegade movement architect who teaches the station's outcasts how to survive in shifting gravity. Jun, cynical and scarred from past corporate betrayals, initially mistrusts the polished scientist, but he recognizes the impossible patterns Samira has found: kinetic encryption, where choreographed human movement hacks the station's core sensors. Forced into an uneasy alliance, the pair must decode a dance of sabotage performed by invisible actors. As the gravity failures escalate from disorientation to catastrophe, the friction between Samira’s disciplined logic and Jun’s intuitive heat ignites into a passionate, dangerous affair. Together, they must master the station's chaotic rhythms to expose a conspiracy that views human lives as disposable ballast.