Healing Rays in Space

In the year 2055, interstellar commerce is ruled by Marshall Space Lines, and a desperate father faces an impossible choice. His daughter is dying from the Venus plague, a deadly virus that has already claimed thousands. But on the outer colonies, rumors spread of healing rays in space solar rays with miraculous restorative properties that could save her. To reach them, he must navigate cutthroat competitors, ruthless corporate politics, and the cold indifference of a universe that values cargo over lives. The story unfolds in a stunning platinum-and-teakwood library where a monstrous man in expensive vitrilex studies charts of the solar system, weighing the cost of salvation against the price of ambition. This is science fiction at its most human: a father's love measured against the void, and the terrible mathematics of hope when the stars themselves might hold the cure.