Daylight Debt

In the city of Oakhaven, the sun is no longer a gift-it is a product. Fifty years after the Helios Corporation constructed the Veil to "protect" the Earth, the sky has become a metallic cage. Natural light is a distant memory, replaced by artificial projection grids that charge citizens for every minute of warmth. In the Unlit District, families huddle in a permanent gray twilight, struggling to pay the "Daylight Debt" while the elite live in towers of eternal summer.
Kaelen is a quiet clockmaker who spends his life measuring time in a world that has lost its rhythm. His only joy is his daughter, Lina, whose health is fading in the shadows. When the corporation raises the price of light and threatens to take Lina away, Kaelen realizes he can no longer live by the ticking of a corporate meter. Joined by a fierce rebel named Nadia and armed with a forbidden fragment of the original sun, Kaelen must leave his workbench and journey into the heart of the Spire-the high-tech fortress that hoards the world's light.
To give his daughter a future, he must find a way to shatter the ceiling of the world. Daylight Debt is a cinematic and deeply emotional journey through a world of shadows. It is a story about the unbreakable bond between a father and child, the courage to face a global empire, and the beautiful, terrifying price of the truth. From the dark alleys of the Unlit District to the golden heights of the corporate clouds, this novel explores a universal human truth: that the human spirit cannot be kept in the dark forever.