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Demeter: Lost Colonies - Book One
Demeter is a science-fiction novel about power, consent, and what awakens when humanity pushes too far into the dark.
As genetic collapse threatens the outer colonies, corporations turn to a ruthless enforced genetic reinforcement, framed as duty and disguised as progress. Young adults are drafted, matched, and sent outward to stabilise settlements on the brink of failure.
Taro Brooke never volunteered.
Dragged under an old matching protocol to the mining world of Demeter, she arrives at a colony that governs itself in uneasy balance and at a planet that does not behave as expected. Demeter’s wealth lies underground, but so do its silences. Mining records don’t align. Restricted zones multiply. And some areas are sealed not for profit, but for containment.
Cole Serros, heir to one of Demeter’s founding families, waited six years before claiming his match. He insists the delay was necessary. He refuses to explain why. As corporate oversight begins to close in, Taro finds herself trapped between a system that owns her body and a world that seems to be watching from below.
Surveillance tightens. Loyalties fracture. And whatever Demeter is hiding beneath its surface is not as dormant as the corporations believe.
Demeter is the first novel in the Lost Colonies series. A character-driven science-fiction story blending slow-burn tension with themes of autonomy, coercion, and the dangers of digging too deep.
As genetic collapse threatens the outer colonies, corporations turn to a ruthless enforced genetic reinforcement, framed as duty and disguised as progress. Young adults are drafted, matched, and sent outward to stabilise settlements on the brink of failure.
Taro Brooke never volunteered.
Dragged under an old matching protocol to the mining world of Demeter, she arrives at a colony that governs itself in uneasy balance and at a planet that does not behave as expected. Demeter’s wealth lies underground, but so do its silences. Mining records don’t align. Restricted zones multiply. And some areas are sealed not for profit, but for containment.
Cole Serros, heir to one of Demeter’s founding families, waited six years before claiming his match. He insists the delay was necessary. He refuses to explain why. As corporate oversight begins to close in, Taro finds herself trapped between a system that owns her body and a world that seems to be watching from below.
Surveillance tightens. Loyalties fracture. And whatever Demeter is hiding beneath its surface is not as dormant as the corporations believe.
Demeter is the first novel in the Lost Colonies series. A character-driven science-fiction story blending slow-burn tension with themes of autonomy, coercion, and the dangers of digging too deep.
344 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 27, 2025
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Philippa Robinson
2 books1 followerPhilippa Robinson is a UK-based science fiction writer and the author of Demeter, the first book in the Lost Colonies series.
Her work explores survival under pressure, moral consequence, and the long shadows left by human ambition.
Demeter marks the beginning of an ongoing series.
Her work explores survival under pressure, moral consequence, and the long shadows left by human ambition.
Demeter marks the beginning of an ongoing series.
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