The Frozen Cargo
The Ione's Reach comes home damaged, underfunded, and one repair bill away from trouble. Then a contract appears that could solve everything.
The job sounds simple: carry eighteen sealed biostasis cylinders from Kepsey Wharf to an independent registry station. The pay is far above normal freight rates. The paperwork is dense. The people inside the cylinders are alive.
And legally, some of them are dead.
Captain Ahron Vey and the crew of the Reach soon discover that their cargo is tied to an old industrial disaster, disputed custody claims, vanished authorities, and records designed to obscure who these people were-and who has the right to decide what happens to them now.
What begins as a profitable transport becomes something far more dangerous. Legal orders arrive. Competing claims close in. The crew must decide which documents deserve obedience, which institutions deserve trust, and how far they are willing to go to protect passengers who cannot speak for themselves.
For Tomas Ariel, the voyage brings another challenge as well. No longer the inexperienced hand aboard the ship, he now finds himself responsible for teaching someone new what survival on a working whaler actually means.
The Ione's Reach has carried dangerous cargo before.
This time, the cargo has names.
THE FROZEN CARGO is Book Two of the Void Whalers series, a character-driven science-fiction adventure about working ships, imperfect systems, found family, and the difficult choices that begin when the rules stop providing good answers.
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