Mistress of Mayhem Book2: Echoes of the Avalanche

Some ships are salvaged, and they all carry secrets. But some secrets should stay buried.Captain Ophelia Knight stays alive on the Outer Rim with instinct, luck, and the AI in her prototype ship, the Mistress of Mayhem. Survival gets harder when the biggest threat to her control is already aboard.Jorian, an accidental purchase, was supposed to work off his debt and walk. Instead, the mechanic becomes the one person Ophelia cannot spare and her heart cannot afford.This family is new. The scars are not.Then a derelict ship falls from the sky. The Avalanche should have been a wreck, officially destroyed years ago. Claiming her looks like opportunity. Instead, it's a spotlight.That claim drags them into mobsters, pirates, mercenaries, and secrets that refuse to stay dead. The most dangerous is the one Jorian holds and cannot tell her.As the Avalanche rises from the wreckage, so do the forces that could tear their family apart.Because an avalanche doesn't start with noise. It starts with pressure.An adult space opera with slow-burn romance, found-family loyalty, raw emotion, and a brutal cliffhanger.