Architects of Memory

Ash Jackson has survived a war with the alien Vai, but survival has left her terminally ill and bound to a corporation. Working as a salvage pilot is part of her attempt to obtain freedom and find treatment before time runs out. When her crew retrieves a devastating weapon from a ruined ship above a dead colony, the discovery promises nothing like a straightforward reward. It draws them into competing corporate interests and a conspiracy that reaches toward Ash herself. Escaping indenture now means understanding why powerful people see her as useful. The future she is fighting to claim becomes inseparable from a weapon that could transform far more than her own life.