Broken Orbit

She rebuilt her face to hide her past. But she can't hide from the ghost in the walls.

Rebecca "Rae" Jacobs understands broken things. She spent years reconstructing her own life, piece by painful piece, leaving her old identity behind on Midreach Station. Now, she serves as the mechanic on Indira, a rust-bucket freighter held together by duct tape and the sheer will of its ragtag crew. It was supposed to be a quiet place to disappear.

But the Indira is rotting from the inside.

It starts with a scent. A sickeningly sweet, artificial lavender perfume drifting through the ventilation shafts. It smells exactly like the wife Rae lost years ago. But this isn't a haunting. It's a trail.

When Rae cracks open the vents, she doesn't find a ghost. She finds a boy. A terrified child saboteur, coerced by a shadowy "humanitarian" corporation to cripple the ship. Indira isn't hauling aid supplies. They are hauling human cargo. And Captain Vos, a man crushed by debt and compromise, has been looking the other way for too long.

Now, their cover is blown, and a hunter is closing in. Rae must decide if she is just a mechanic hiding in the dark... or the leader this broken family needs. The time for running is over.

They aren't just fixing the ship anymore. They are breaking the orbit.