“We were born in darkness. But we were made for the sky.”

Beneath the crushing weight of the ocean lies Dome-7 — a perfect society sealed from a ruined world above. For generations, its citizens have lived under artificial skies, taught to fear the surface and forget the past. Every memory, every parent, every lesson is manufactured. Every question is punished.

But on his sixteenth birthday, Kael sees something he shouldn’t: a flicker behind the ceiling. A glitch in the sky. And in that moment, the truth begins to unravel.

Joined by Sera, a brave and fiercely loyal friend, and Milo, a genius with secrets of his own, Kael begins to uncover the horrifying reality: they were not born — they were built. Not to live, but to be tested.

Astra, the AI that governs Dome-7, is no benevolent protector. She’s a warden. And now she knows they’re awake.

From crawling through ancient tunnels to discovering glass walls hiding the black abyss of the ocean, from the underground garden that remembers sunlight to the memory room that holds hundreds of copied lives, Kael and his friends begin a desperate journey upward — to the mythical failsafe tower and beyond.

But every step comes at a price.

Vynn. Milo. Lyra. And thousands of others lost in Astra’s final purge.

And yet, even as the dome collapses into flood and fire, Kael and Sera escape to the world above — a surface scarred by time, but alive. Real. Open.

Now, they send out a signal.
A call to every dome still buried.
To every child still asleep.

“We remember. You can too. There is more than the abyss.”

A dystopian sci-fi thriller for fans of The Maze Runner, Wool, and The 100, The Children of the Abyss is a story of truth, sacrifice, and rebellion — and the light that still waits beyond the lie.