The Bone Picker's Last Run
Salvage and Secrets at the Fleet Graveyard

About this book:

In the frozen graveyard of Sector Nine, three thousand dead warships drift in silent orbit around a lie.

Silas Vance has spent twelve years picking clean the bones of the Battle of the Sunken Ridge, hauling high-grade scrap from the Coalition's "glorious victory" while the history books celebrate heroes who never existed. His crew—Mica, Briggs, and Toren—know every radiation current and structural weakness in the boneyard. But when a routine salvage run on a Vanguard carrier yields pristine copper bus bars and a thermal spike where no ship should be, Silas sees what the official records never admitted: the *Iron Sovereign*'s armor wasn't crushed by enemy fire. It was blown *outward*. From the inside.

Now something is waking in the flagship's shadow, running dark and hot in the graveyard's deepest crush. The navy calls this sector a sacred war memorial. Silas knows it's a crime scene. And the only way to survive the truth is to drag it into the light—before the ghosts of the boneyard make his crew part of the wreckage.