Black Star Wane
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In the fractured margins of a dying galaxy, mercenary captain Riven Korda leads the crew of the Ragged Vow through the lawless void. Haunted by a vanished sister and a memory-eating past, Riven takes contracts no one else dares-wreck dives, recursion retrievals, and corpse-code bounties.
When a dying archivist implants her with a fragment of forbidden code, Riven becomes the target of recursion cults, rogue AIs, and a Union conspiracy older than the black signal itself.
As her mind begins to fracture, and reality twists beneath her feet, Riven must follow the signal trail toward the mythical Abysmal Spire-a place where the past isn't dead, only weaponized.
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