The Black Heart of the Station by Jay Allan Storey

Teenager Josh Driscoll lives in the Station – a city buried deep beneath the surface of a frozen, lifeless earth, its origins lost in the mists of time. Josh’s frequent rule-breaking exploits are focused on a single question – how did we get here?

But Josh goes too far when he steals a space-suit and escapes to the surface to explore.

As punishment, the governing Council forcibly enrolls him as a novice monk at Saint Carmine’s, the Station’s resident monastery. At first desperate to escape, Josh finds himself drawn into the monastery’s ancient texts.

Deciphering an encrypted journal hidden for centuries, Josh learns that the Black Heart, a computer complex sealed off by an ancient asteroid strike, may hold the answers he’s been seeking, and may be all that can save the city from certain annihilation.

Category: Science Fiction – Post-Apocalyptic