Dead Reckoning

The Calloway is forty days from losing everything. Captain Wren Okafor owes two million pounds, her crew are out of work, and her daughter's school fees are overdue. Then a dead man's transponder wakes up at the edge of the system.

The Meridian vanished eleven years ago with twenty-three people aboard. Now she is drifting home, her lights on and her engines warm. Her crew come to the hatch smiling. They put the kettle on. They have not aged a day, and none of them will say where they have been.

Wren has a salvage claim worth a fortune and a ship that smells of fresh bread. She also has the nagging sense that the crew are counting something. Four hundred kilometres astern, something enormous has been following the Meridian the whole time, and it is getting closer to the Calloway.

Her doctor says the crew are perfectly healthy. Her engineer says the reactor is a picture of a reactor. Her pilot has just found her missing brother. And a woman from the lender is on her way, with a very reasonable offer.

Some wrecks should stay lost. Dead Reckoning is a claustrophobic, character-driven science fiction thriller for readers who love their deep-space horror with a human heart.