'A thrilling standalone adventure that James S.A. Corey fans will relish' Publishers Weekly (starred review)A search for a missing person uncovers a galaxy-spanning conspiracy in this thrilling standalone space opera from award-winning author Megan E.O'Keefe. The Black Celeste is a ghost story. A once-legendary spaceship collecting dust in a cosmic graveyard known as the Clutch.Only famed pirate Bitter Amandine knows better, and she'll do anything to never go near it again.No matter the cost. Faven Sythe is crystborn, a member of the near-human species tasked with charting starpaths from station to station.She's trained to be a navigator her entire life. But when her mentor disappears, leaving behind a mysterious starpath terminating in the Clutch, she is determined to find the truth. And only Amandine has the answers. What they will find is a conspiracy bigger than either of them.Their quest for the truth will uncover secrets Amandine has long fought to keep buried - secrets about how she survived her last encounter in the Clutch, and what's really hidden out there amongst the stars . . . 'A swashbuckling sapphic adventure full of shifting loyalties and cosmic upheaval.Be warned: this imaginative fusion of space opera and pirate adventure will take your sleep schedule hostage'J.S. Dewes, author of The Last Watch