Four for the Debt

Out in the Swarm, every debt gets paid. One way or another.

Kaelen has lost his ship, his savings, most of his luck, and Axiom, the sentient core that used to talk him through every run, gone dark in a padded case since it turned on them. What he has left is a crew who won't leave, an oath that binds him to a Warden captain's hearing, and a strongbox of shares that belong to the dead.

Then Rian comes back from an estate sale with a hauler: cream hull, a railgun, a missile rack, and a note that falls due on the last Sun of the Span.

Now Kaelen has to fly every job the drift will pay for, from a chapel shard full of believers to a ferry that is always late, while a quiet man from Talonis decides how long to wait.

The crew want Axiom back. That means a bellcracker willing to open it, and a dying warlord whose claim still holds it.

Found family, a slow-burn queer romance, and a crew that hides its chits behind the salt.

Book 4 of The Othrys Cycle