Helyna L. Clove

Jeane Blake, captain of the spaceship Skylark, makes her living by looting dead worlds, planets fallen prey to naturally occurring wormhole-like rifts plaguing 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 device that could collapse the wormhole network and wipe out all sentient life, they catch the hungry eyes of the Union, a tyrannical empire hunting the sinister tech…

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.

Calla has no memory of her childhood except for hazy, recurring nightmares. But she doesn’t mind. As a servant in Kiriong, the picturesque terrace-garden home to one of the most influential families in the Kamphua Dominion, she’s content to live a simple life, untouched by the troubles of the world. As long as no one finds out about the forbidden magic stirring under her skin.

When the estranged firstborn son of the family, Gray—a magic-user hunting rogue mages in servitude of the royal hold—unexpectedly returns home, Calla’s powers begin to revolt, the secret she’s kept for so long threatening to surface. Gray senses her abilities but instead of giving her up, offers the one thing Calla always feared: to teach her how to use her powers...

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Breva, Ludmi, and Popsicle are childhood friends and, oh, by the way, ghost-hunters . Thanks to their dead-whisperer powers, they’re good at it too, but this same ability also makes them outcasts in the human world.

One day, the job takes them into an abandoned country house that holds a nasty surprise. And when their own origin story catches up with them in the form of a greedy cult and a powerful storm demon, the decision is between sacrificing their lives to right a wrong they were never responsible for and offering the world on a silver plate to an insatiable supernatural being that would destroy everything they love.

First contact YA sci-fi where a prehistoric explorer makes friends with the mysterious traveller of a crashed alien ship.