Lance S. Gaynor

It is 2050. The sun is no longer neutral. Solar flares have stripped Earth's ozone layer bare, and ultraviolet radiation now decides who survives the day. In London, the wealthy are quietly drawing a new map of human value - and African women are at the center of it. Zeta is a master's student one bad grade away from losing everything. Uwase is a farmer's daughter whose body has become a bargaining chip.
Sarah is an athlete who never got to say yes. Three women. Three very different choices - from the choices they were given. Melanated is a speculative thriller about power, survival, and who gets to decide what a human life is worth when the sun changes the rules.