The Salvage Rights to a Living Star

About this book

On Vell's Edge, a lawless fueling station built into the fossil corpse of an ancient celestial leviathan, nineteen-year-old salvager Kae Obraya wants only to clear her dead mother's debt and vanish. Her crew's last cut opens a sealed chamber and finds the unthinkable: a living nursery where infant stars pulse in crystalline sacs, proving the leviathan is not dead but dormant. Through Kae's malfunctioning prosthetic eye, one hatchling bonds to her and begins feeding on memory, grief, and the debt she carries like a brand. As the zealot Commander Sestra Vohn moves to awaken the sacred migrant and corporate harvester Dael Mhori sees the nursery as his own road out of bondage, three powers converge on the fossil station. Sixty years later, an elderly Kae testifies before the Galactic Tribunal on Meridian Station about the choice that followed—a decision no faction wanted, and one whose cost is still written in what she can and cannot remember.

Book details

Genres:

Space Opera, Science Fantasy, Coming-of-Age, First Contact

Language:

en

Published:

2026-07-22

Content rating:

R