Murder on a retirement starship. No escape. No alibis.
She boarded the Fresh Start to stay invisible—quiet work, quiet corridors, and a crowd that wouldn’t ask questions. Then the Captain dies, and Marcy becomes the easiest story to sell: a messy outsider, a convenient suspect.
The crew calls it an accident. Command wants the incident closed.
But the evidence doesn’t behave like an accident—especially when the last thing the Captain consumed becomes the murder weapon.
Cornered by surveillance, ship politics, and a tightening narrative, she is forced into an uneasy alliance with her obsessively methodical supervisor, David Brenner, and the ship’s sharpest unofficial investigators: the Friday Mystery Circle, three retirees who treat shipboard gossip like intelligence and contradictions like proof.
As gravity glitches rattle the decks and systems turn unreliable, Marcy follows a trail of missing hydroponic herbs, tampered routines, and ventilation patterns that don’t match the official timeline. Someone aboard the Fresh Start isn’t just hiding a crime.
They’re rewriting reality to bury it.
And if Marcy gets too close to the truth, the next “accident” won’t be the Captain’s.
It’ll be hers—through an airlock.
