We Scavenge the Silent Hulls
A Novel

About this book:

In the Graveyard Drift, five AUs from the inner colonies, the hulks of humanity's first star-shot dreams float like bleached ribs in the dark. Kael and Vesper make their living stripping them—navigation cores, hydroponic schematics, anything that buys another month of oxygen and protein paste aboard their skiff, *The Skua*. It's honest, freezing work. Until the *Aegis-7* yields a data drive with a log entry dated forty-two years after the ship was declared dead, and a single, impossible line of code: *CRYOGENIC_HOLD_STABILIZED*. Generation ships didn't carry cryo pods. Someone ran a line from a dying reactor, hammered a hatch shut from the outside, and kept a heartbeat ticking in the dark for four decades.

Now the signal is pulsing stronger—six beats per minute, three degrees Celsius, ninety-eight percent metabolic suppression. Something is alive in the vault decks. Or something is waiting. With their anchor beam failing and the debris belt closing in, Kael and Vesper have minutes to decide: haul the drive and run, or cut through a seal that was never meant to be broken. In a graveyard where every scavenger dies broke or vanished, the only thing more dangerous than the cold is the truth they've woken up.

*We Scavenge the Silent Hulls* is a claustrophobic, character-driven sci-fi thriller where *Alien* meets *The Expanse*—gritty, atmospheric, and razor-sharp on the physics of survival. For readers who love lived-in worldbuilding, partners who banter like they've survived hell together, and mysteries buried deep in the steel ribs of dead dreams.