Kade Mercer is a Gen-1 human, rare, valuable, and best left forgotten.

When a simple salvage job on the rim turns up a wrecked ship and impossible cargo, Kade finds himself tied to a rogue synth and two women who were never meant to wake up.

Someone experimented with something they should not have.

Someone erased the proof.

And now everyone wants what survived.

Hunted by factions that do not miss, chased through storms and shadows, Kade must decide how far he is willing to go to protect people whose fate is tangled with his own.

Because whatever was done to them was not finished.