In the year 2325, humanity clings to existence in the hostile TRAPPIST-1 system, surviving along narrow twilight zones between eternal heat and frozen night. The system is held together by a massive gravity-stabilizing machine buried deep beneath the surface of a dead world. And now... it is failing.Kaelen is a scavenger living where no normal human can survive. Stronger. Faster. Resistant to radiation. He is also the final living product of the secret Adaptation Project-genetically engineered children created to survive extreme space environments and exterminated during a violent political purge.When the stabilization engine malfunctions and the planets begin drifting toward catastrophic collision, Kaelen realizes the unthinkable truth: the machine is biologically locked. Only someone engineered like him can stop it.Hunted by the same government that once erased his kind, Kaelen teams with a disgraced physicist whose father led the purge. Together they uncover a devastating secret-the ruling elite is preparing to abandon the system on hidden ark ships, leaving billions to die.As riots erupt across the twilight worlds and gravity itself begins to break down, Kaelen must face the machine that was built using the science that created him... and decide whether sacrificing what remains of his humanity is the only way to save the people who once tried to destroy him.The Trappist Paradox is a cinematic, high-stakes science-fiction thriller combining hard science, political intrigue, and character-driven survival-perfect for fans of epic space disaster stories, morally complex heroes, and world-ending stakes.