Orbit Decay
A novel

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.
Ines Vidal has spent twenty-four years stripping dead ships in the Kessler Belt, reading hulls the way her mother taught her: every mark is a story. Then the Salvage Queen finds a warship that should not exist — a Vigil-class hunter-killer, forty years out of production, sitting intact and unscarred in the most sandblasted stretch of debris in the system. Cold. Silent. No registry, no record, no reason. And a distress call, looping, in a voice Ines almost recognizes. Boarding it is the worst decision of her life. It is also the only one she could make. Because some wrecks are not empty. Some are hearts: engines that trap ships inside loops of their own worst hours, feeding on the moments a crew cannot let go. Now the loop has Ines's crew — Jax, Amara, and Finn, the kid who found the warning. Breaking it will cost more than salvage ever paid. A propulsive science-fiction thriller about the things we carry into the dark — and the crew that refuses to leave anyone behind.