The Salvage Clause: A Scrap Valkyrie Mystery

By Dominic Jensen

Mira Kavanaugh is one missed payment away from losing her salvage tug, her crew, and the only life she's built since the Navy threw her out for refusing an order she still won't talk about.

Then a distress beacon pings on a twelve-year-old carrier wave.

The Aventine was a luxury liner that vanished with all hands during a corporate scandal everyone agreed to forget. Maritime law says whoever finds her, keeps her - and Mira just found her. The dining room is set for a meal nobody ate. The logs have been scrubbed to a very specific date. One suite is locked from the inside. And a Lyon-Acheron Asset Recovery cruiser is burning hard across the rim to reach the wreck before Mira can file her claim.

She has six days to document the ship, solve a twelve-year-old murder, and figure out why the woman hunting her keeps using her first name like they're old friends.

The Aventine isn't quite empty. And the answer to what happened on board is going to cost Mira the one thing she swore she'd never look at again: the truth about why she walked away from the Navy.

A fast, funny, locked-room space mystery for fans of Firefly, Becky Chambers, and Mick Herron in zero gravity.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GWY11Q3N
• ISBN13: 9798255861330
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"