The Syntax of Silence

About this book

When Ambassador Salim Ibarra is assassinated inside a sealed diplomatic exosuit during a routine jump, the Heliotrope Accord teeters on the brink of galactic war. Mara Venn, a brilliant but traumatized treaty-linguist, discovers a perfectly translated, anomalous phrase in the ship's logs that points to a systemic conspiracy. Partnered with disgraced pilot Kestrel Nine, Mara must navigate treacherous gate-cathedrals, illicit signal bazaars, and corrupt floating courthouses to decode a weaponized language designed to tear forty worlds apart. Together, they must unravel the impossible locked-room mystery before the untranslatable truth ignites a century-old conflict.