Flux and Bone

About this book

In the treacherous Orion Arm, veteran warp-cartographer Jax Harlan survives by mapping forbidden routes for smugglers in her battered ship, the *Driftfox*. Haunted by a past tragedy and cybernetically enhanced, she travels with a sarcastic AI, Grit. During a dangerous run through the Vortex Nebula, Jax encounters a nomadic plasma entity known as a Fluxweaver. After a catastrophic flare, the entity, Kael, fuses with Jax's ship and her own neural implants, granting her extraordinary navigational senses but awakening predatory, feral urges. She is joined by Lena Reyes, a thrill-seeking xenobiologist with her own dark history of illicit neural experimentation. Together, they navigate Kael's domain—a labyrinth of extinct civilizations and alien knowledge—while being hunted by corporate void-hunters led by Lena's ruthless estranged brother, Commander Voss. As they decode the secrets of the Fluxweavers, Jax and Lena must forge a fragile trust amidst high-stakes danger, zero-gravity romance, and the terrifying prospect of evolving into something beyond human. Jax must ultimately choose between profit, humanity, or a terrifying new form of existence that could reshape the galaxy.