Some doors aren’t found. They find you.
Kade Renn repairs broken machines on a dying salvage moon and does whatever it takes to keep his younger sister, Lira, alive.
That is all his life has room for.
Then a buried ship rises from the black sand.
Inside is a dying Driftborn pilot, a blood-stained secret, and a black shard that speaks in the voice of Kade’s dead mother.
She has been gone for nine years.
Now she is calling him beyond the edge of authorised space.
Hunted by the Sovereign Directorate and forced aboard Mara Venn’s illegal salvage ship, The Moth, Kade and Lira are pulled into a hidden war over ancient gates, erased histories and routes humanity was never meant to find.
But the gates were not built for empire.
They were built for something older.
Something waiting.
Something waking up.
And some doors aren’t found.
They find you.
The Driftborn is a gritty, character-driven space opera about family, survival, ancient gates, hidden histories and the secrets empires kill to protect.
Perfect for readers who enjoy the scale and mystery of The Expanse, the frontier grit of Firefly, ancient gate mysteries, damaged ships, found family, and science fiction where ordinary people are pulled into impossible wars.
