Salvage Rights

4,000 sleepers. One broke salvage crew. A fortune they refuse to take.

Captain Nia Adeyemi is six days from losing her family's battered salvage tug when her crew finds the impossible: the Covenant of Dawn, a colony ship lost 251 years ago, still drifting in the dark with four thousand colonists asleep aboard and a lonely AI called Mother keeping them alive. Under salvage law, the ship and maybe the sleepers belong to whoever tows it in. Nia could be rich. And a ruthless megacorp is already on its way to claim them as cargo.

A big-hearted space opera about found family, impossible choices and the first rule of the Drift: you don't salvage the living.

• Science fiction novella, about 34 pages (6×9 PDF)
• Includes questions for reading groups
• Instant digital download