Deadlight

The stars are going out. One man can still reach the thing that's killing them.Kael Renn is an exile, scratching a living diving the dead machines of a vanished race on the edge of the Reach. He's also the last thing the galaxy needs — because the forbidden power in his blood, the resonance that wakes dead tech at a touch, is the same force an ancient machine-mind is using to snuff out the stars one by one. They call the dark the Fade. Kael is the only one who can reach its heart. He's also the one thing it wants.To have any chance he throws in with three dangerous women, each fighting the Fade her own way: a hard-bitten salvage captain with a loyal crew, a hunted savant who alone knows what the Silence truly is, and a red-haired defector whose curse mirrors his own. A grim alliance of the damned becomes the only thing holding any of them together — and the only thing that can hold Kael himself.DEADLIGHT is a sweeping grimdark space-opera harem: one reluctant man, three fully realized women, high stakes and high heat, and a war for the light itself. Book 1 of The Shrouded Reach