The Lodestar works the Rivas Corridor at the height of a frontier golden age: catcher stations flinging sealed mountains of cargo across the system and catching them gentle as freight. Daniel Cross buys real coffee with his own pay and still isn't tired of watching the catch come in. Then a tug comes down the lane empty where a crewed one should be, and inside a stolen freight stream there are people who aren't supposed to be there.
The Reach is the one series I'd say to read in order. This is the door.
- Amazon (Kindle, free on Kindle Unlimited)
- Read the opening and see every other store: https://fracturedcosmology.xyz/books/the-wrong-number/
- Free audiobook on YouTube: Part 1 · Part 2
- The catcher chain. Did the engineering of it grab you the way it grabbed Cross?
- Cross as a captain. What did you make of him before anything went wrong?
- The sabotage isn't the crime it's dressed up as. When did you work out what it actually was?
Spoilers for this book are fine below. It's the book's own thread. Anything from a later book or another series, wrap it in [spoiler] tags so nobody gets ambushed.