Helyna L. Clove

NEW!

A standalone novella in the universe of Skylark in the Fog!

Noll and Jayce Morgan are lanehunters—that is to say they are used to perilous spaceship chases through the erratic, wormhole-like space-time tears that plague their cosmos. They are decidedly not used to one of those gateways suddenly changing up its game and separating the twins with only a slight hope of ever finding each other.

Now Noll has to ally with a reclusive alien, a traumatized spy, and a bizarre agent duo in service of the crumbling galactic empire ruining everyone’s day to save her brother’s life. The clock is ticking, but when the universe turns out to be even stranger than Noll imagined, she’s not sure her fear disguised as swaggering grit would pull her through once again.

So when the universe falls to pieces, it doesn’t mean your life has to, right? That comes later.

Jeane Blake, captain of the spaceship Skylark, makes her living by looting planets fallen prey to the naturally occurring wormhole-like rifts that plague the cosmos. She survives the only way she knows how: avoiding commitment and arguing with her dead foster father’s ghost.

But when her crew stumbles upon an alien invention capable of wiping out all sentient life, allying with an AI-controlling runaway queen and an almost-brainwashed soldier might be her only chance to save herself and the home she abandoned long ago.

That’s all fine, probably. But facing her own personal demons? Yeah, no, thank you.