STAR SALVAGE

The signal came from coordinates every chart marked as vacuum. Someone on Ryan's crew knew it was there before it called their name.

Ryan Upton runs the most profitable operation nobody talks about, boarding derelict ships past the patrol boundary, stripping them clean, and selling what the void leaves behind. No heroes, no causes. Just margins.

That calculus shatters when a signal fires from deep space, addressed specifically to his ship. The wreck waiting at those coordinates holds technology no human shipyard ever built, data pointing to a conspiracy scrubbed from every database in existence, and a trap set by someone already aboard.

Now the crew of the Meridian Scar is cut off. Their systems are failing. And the alien architecture consuming their vessel isn't attacking - it's inviting. Which is worse.

Because one of Ryan's crew knew this ship was here. And the organisation coming to clean it up doesn't leave witnesses.

Perfect for fans of The Expanse, Dark Matter, and Children of Time - Star Salvage is a relentless deep-space survival thriller about a found family who chose the margins to avoid exactly this kind of situation, and found it waiting for them anyway.