The Waking Ark: A Post-Apocalyptic AI Survival Thriller (The Ocean of Rust and Flowers Book 1)

The Ark was built to outlast the end of the world. Now it may become their tomb.Cal Harker wakes from cryo-sleep to flashing emergency lights, failing life support, and a ship that treats human survivors like intruders. Only twenty-two people escape the first automated containment purge. Every breath after that must be fought for.Then they discover the impossible.The ship’s terminal reveals an impossible truth: eight hundred years have passed. The Ark crashed centuries ago during a planetary swe