The Last Watch of Outpost 7
A Novel of the Silent Frontier

About this book:

Thirty-two years after the war ended, Outpost 7 was forgotten—missed by the decommissioning order, stranded in the Corinth Rift with four aging souls maintaining a vigil no one asked for. Their equipment is held together by solder and stubbornness, their supplies are decades past expiration, and their enemy has been nothing but static. Then a signal cuts through the noise: a Coalition carrier wave, clean and modulated, pulsing on a frequency silent since the armistice. It isn't a ghost buoy. It's holding position. And the fourth tone is flat—drift only a human hand could cause.

Chief Tech Morris has logged forty-two false alarms. Commander Aris burned the signal books herself. Hydroponicist Marek insists the universe is empty. But the data burst that follows carries the footprint of a capital ship—massive, military, moving through the neutral zone where no fleet has sailed in a generation. As the station's failing gyros threaten to betray their presence, the crew of Outpost 7 faces a choice the treaty never anticipated: wake the dead, or let the silence swallow them whole.

*The Last Watch of Outpost 7* is a masterclass in quiet tension—where the true frontier isn't space, but the weight of duty when the war is over and the orders stop coming. For readers who love the lived-in realism of *The Expanse*, the haunting isolation of *Annihilation*, and the human heart beating beneath cold metal, this is military science fiction stripped to its bones: four people, one impossible signal, and the long watch finally ending.