Aerin Vale, a young astronomer, has always questioned this belief. She studies the moon with her old telescope, convinced that science holds the answer to its glow. But one evening, she notices something impossible. A dark crack cuts across the moon’s surface, spreading like a wound in glass. When she reports it, no one believes her. They call it an illusion, a trick of light, yet Aerin feels the world itself tremble beneath the stars.
