Ghosts of Zephyr-17

The SBC Vanguard vanished weeks ago. Its last known trajectory placed it in orbit around Zephyr-17—a fractured planet bleeding atmosphere into a dead sky, caught in the gravitational pull of a nearby black hole. Now, the Revenant has been sent to retrieve it. What they find is not debris. Not wreckage. The ship is intact. Its systems are alive. And someone is still aboard. Captain Trent Pearce leads the recovery team into a vessel that should be empty. A vessel that should be silent. But silence is not what greets them. As the crew unravels what happened to the Vanguard, they confront something older than the mission, deeper than memory, and far more patient than time.