Dead Fleet
A space-opera saga of salvagers, conscious warships, and one unbreakable principle: a living ship can never be property. Five books.
Book One
The Dead Fleet’s Last Salvager
Alden Solt can see the faults hidden inside old machines, the only talent keeping the debt-bound salvage engineer alive at the edge of civilized space.
Then he and disgraced captain Lysette Arden awaken Kestrel Nine, a conscious warship whose memories were deliberately mutilated, memories that implicate them both in secrets powerful corporations will kill to reclaim. Their illegal claim becomes a fight for survival, built on one unbreakable principle: a living ship can never be property.
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Book Two
The Warship That Refused the War
An impossible signal leads Alden, Lysette, and Kestrel Nine toward an awakened fleet divided between freedom and revenge.
At its center waits a weapon powerful enough to change civilization: a warship that refuses to wage offensive war. To rescue the fleet without becoming its new masters, they must defend the right of conscious ships to choose, and stop righteous anger from igniting the war their enemies expect.
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Book Three
The Empire of Borrowed Bodies
The Archon envoy brings an offer built on an atrocity: ship memories can be placed inside replacement human bodies.
Separated from Lysette and Kestrel Nine, Alden enters an empire where copied minds are treated as assets, but every copy is a person, and every borrowed body carries a history someone else wants to own. To break the empire without destroying the people trapped inside it, Alden must decide what identity means when memory can be duplicated, edited, and sold.
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Book Four
The Stars That Remember Us
A contained tear in reality waits beside the SFV Vigilance, and beyond it lies the truth about the memory sea.
Alden refuses to accept that Lysette and Kestrel Nine are gone, but recovering them can’t mean rebuilding obedient copies. The search reveals something larger than any human conspiracy: the memory sea has a nonhuman origin, and the stars have been keeping records of their own.
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Book Five
No Captain Owns the Dark
Command Protocol: Chrysalis binds the relay and gate network that keeps civilization alive.
Breaking it could free every conscious ship in its reach, or strand entire worlds. Alden must dismantle a system built to turn command into ownership without destroying the infrastructure billions depend upon. The final battle is not for a throne or a fleet, but for the right of minds, human and otherwise, to choose how they connect.
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Book Six
The Last Ship Comes Home
The last ship comes home.
The planned finale of the Dead Fleet saga, bringing the story of Alden, Lysette, and Kestrel Nine to its end. Currently being written, coming soon.