About this book:

In a galaxy still scarred by the mysterious destruction of the starship Argo three decades ago, Mara Lin, a disgraced artifact hunter, lives in the shadow of her family’s ruined legacy. Suspected of complicity in the disaster that shattered her family's once-celebrated name, Mara survives by scavenging and staying one step ahead of galactic authorities. Her world is upended when a faint beacon, emanating from the Argo’s supposed wreck site in uncharted space, ignites a desperate quest for truth. Hired by the enigmatic billionaire Aris Thorne, who seeks a powerful relic from the lost ship, Mara embarks on a treacherous journey, only to find herself caught in a cosmic race against corporate rivals, government agents, and a fanatical cult who believe the Argo's fall was a divine intervention. At her side is Cassian, a security android whose fragmented memories hold the key to the Argo’s final, horrifying moments.

As Mara delves deeper into the Argo's mysteries, she uncovers a truth far more terrifying than she imagined: the ship wasn't merely destroyed, but consumed by a multi-dimensional parasitic entity known as the Abyss, now dormant but still seeking a conduit to manifest fully in their reality. Thorne, obsessed with harnessing this cosmic horror, seeks to recreate the conditions that befell the Argo, unknowingly aided by "corrupted echoes"—individuals subtly influenced by the Abyss's insidious will. With the galaxy's major powers converging on a new, active gateway, Mara, now a fugitive branded by Thorne, must unite her unlikely crew—a stoic pilot with a hidden connection to the Argo, a nervous comms expert, a shell-shocked xenobotanist, and a reformed quantum physicist—to confront Thorne and his corrupted lieutenants. The truth of the Fallen Star is not a lost relic, but a desperate warning, and Mara must risk everything to seal the gateways, protect a mysterious biological entity her mother tried to save, and prevent the Abyss from unraveling reality itself.