One for the Hull

A dead man is the one thing nobody hunts.

Ex-Fleet pilot Kaelen flew the drop that should have made his squad rich. Then his employer buried the witnesses, and Kaelen lived only by cutting the tracking node out of his own chest.

Now he carries what the job was really about, and it has opinions. His employer wants it back. The law wants him in a cell. A masked warlord and his singing fanatics want it most of all.

All he has to strike back with is a ship that barely holds air and a crew he can't pay: a navigator in debt, an engineer with secrets in the hull, a medic who won't meet his eyes.

Revenge, or the people beside him. The gas giant's Dyson Swarm won't give him both.

A first-person space thriller of found family and queer, slow-burning tension.