Janus: Silent Systems - Book Three - A Slow-Burn Sci-Fi Romance

by Philippa Robinson

The Janus was supposed to carry humanity toward a new future.
Instead, it became a prison drifting through deep space.

Captain Orion Vale boards the colony ship expecting routine oversight during its eight-month voyage. What he finds instead is a vessel built on hidden systems, missing records, and three hundred sleeping passengers who were never meant to wake.

Then he sees her.

Eve was supposed to be dead.
At least, that’s what Orion was told.

Now she’s standing aboard the Janus under a different name, hiding behind forged credentials and dangerous secrets of her own. Officially, Eve is just another systems technician entering cryogenic sleep for the journey ahead. Unofficially, she’s hunting for the truth buried deep within the ship’s sealed architecture before it’s too late.

But on a ship designed to monitor every movement, trust is dangerous.
And attraction may be even worse.

As the walls begin closing in around them, Orion and Eve uncover a terrifying the Janus was never built to save humanity. It was built to study it.

Trapped together inside a controlled experiment where survival itself is being measured, they’ll have to decide how much they’re willing to risk for the truth… and for each other.

Because some systems were never meant to hold.
And some people were never meant to meet again.

Kindle Edition

Expected publication November 30, 2026

About the author

Philippa Robinson is a UK-based science fiction romance author who writes morally grey men, survival tension, corporate dystopias, and painfully slow burns.

Her Silent Systems series blends sci-fi, romance, and emotional survival stories set against dangerous worlds and morally complicated futures.

When she’s not writing, she’s usually reading indie sci-fi romance, attempting to market books professionally while behaving like a chaos gremlin online, or emotionally attaching herself to fictional men.