Lost Solace

Sometimes spaceships disappear with everyone on board — the Lost Ships. But sometimes they come back, strangely altered, derelict, and rumoured to be full of horrors. Opal is on a mission. She's been seeking something her whole life. Something she is willing to die for. And she thinks it might be on a Lost Ship. Opal has stolen Clarissa, an experimental AI-controlled spaceship, from the military. Together they have tracked down a Lost Ship, in a lonely nebula far from colonised space. The Lost Ship is falling into the gravity well of a neutron star, and will soon be truly lost ... forever. Legends say the ships harbour death, but there's no time for indecision. Opal gears up to board it. She's just one woman, entering an alien and lethal environment. But perhaps with the aid of Clarissa's intelligence — and an armoured spacesuit — Opal may stand a chance.

The legendary Lost Ships exist, and they harbour nightmarish horrors. Opal knows. She barely survived her first encounter with one. Despite escaping, she failed to find what she was looking for: her lost sister. Now Opal must board a second derelict Lost Ship to seek answers, and it's even more monstrous, a sickening place of death and decay. To make things worse, the military government wants her, dead or alive. Considering their reputation, dead may be better. To find her sister, Opal will risk everything: her life, her blood, her sanity. There's always a price to pay. Armed with her wits, an experimental armoured suit, and an amazing AI companion, she might just stand a chance.

She survived hell. Now her real problems begin.Opal Imbiana is many things to many people. Hero. Traitor. Soldier. Deserter. Criminal. Explorer.Survivor.She finally achieved her life's goal: to rescue her little sister from the utterly alien Null zone.But the world she returns to has changed. Her friends are gone, and her enemies are more powerful than ever.In the bleakest situations, it takes an exceptional mind to keep hope alive.Ideal for fans of sentient AI ships, as found in Brandon Sanderson's Skyward books or Embers of War by Gareth L. Powell.

She has a family. Now it's time to find a home. Opal, Athene and Clarissa are finally free of Aseides' torture ship, but the past always catches up with us. Their enemies remain powerful, persistent and cruel. True escape will require more courage and strength than ever before, in order to achieve what others believed is impossible. To go home. Every journey has an end. But freedom comes at a price. Ideal for fans of space opera and horror; claustrophobic, dark and dangerous places as in Metro 2033; or the uncanny alien weirdness of VanderMeer's Annihilation. Welcome to the thrilling conclusion to Opal's quest.