“With propulsive action and twists that keep the reader guessing…this tense sprint through a future dominated by profit-driven amorality makes for a gripping, cinematic sci-fi thriller that readers won’t want to put down.”– Publishers Weekly (starred review) Praise for Salvation Day and the writing of Kali Wallace 'Kali Wallace, the world needs you-and this book. But catching a killer is only the beginning of Hester's worries, and she soon realizes that everything she learns about her friend, his fellow miners, and the outpost they call home brings her closer to revealing secrets that very powerful and very dangerous people would rather keep hidden in the depths of space. Hester joins the investigation to find the truth, both about her friend's death and the information he believed he had uncovered. Before Hester can learn more, her friend is violently murdered at a remote asteroid mine. She's surprised to hear from an old friend and fellow victim of the terrorist attack that ruined her life-and that surprise quickly turns to suspicion when he claims to have discovered something shocking about their shared history and the tragedy that neither of them can leave behind. Now she spends her days investigating petty crimes to help her employer maximize its profits. But when a catastrophic attack left her injured, indebted, and stranded far from home, she was forced to take a dead-end security job with a powerful mining company in the asteroid belt.

Hester Marley used to have a plan for her life.

Dick Award An investigator must solve a brutal murder on a claustrophobic space station in this tense science fiction thriller from the author of Salvation Day.

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