Cadence Drake

Your mother frames you for murder? Flee... Change your name... Build a new life far, far away. At least that's what you do until the survival of humanity depends on you, and the problem takes you back to the last place in the universe you want to go. Home. Cady Drake has taken a job fining a stolen new-tech spaceship for money that - if she can survive long enough to earn it - will make her dream come true. Not dreams. Just... One. Small. Dream. But when humanity's nightmares collide with her promise to never go home again, Cady will have to trade in her small dream for one big rule. Don't die. That's a good rule. If you were in her shoes, could you follow it?

Mistakes were made. Hindsight is 20/20, but when bloodsuckers attacking your spaceship's hull, that's not helpful. You can tell yourself, "Next time, accept the lap dance, and turn down the "easy" job. Cady did it the other way round, thinking that rescuing her client's several vacationing wives from a fancy resort would be simple and quick, and would pay her enough to keep her spaceship flying at least long enough to get another job. But no. She's not that lucky. She doesn't just discover the wreck of the resort. Not just the ruination of the little vacation moon. Oh, no...She discovers a time-bomb that will result in the annihilation of humankind across all of settled space when it ticks down to...Darkout. Could you save humankind? Can she?