About this ebook
When a distant relative leaves him an aging freighter called the Soft Orbit, Eli sees a simple way out. Inspect the systems, list it for sale, and disappear. He has spent enough years in high-pressure corporate habitats. He wants quiet. He wants empty rooms.
Instead he finds an opinionated AI who insists on being called Auntie, an anxious maintenance bot named Rook, and a careful young stowaway who has been living in the cargo hold.
What begins as a temporary inconvenience slowly becomes something else. Small jobs turn into shared work. Shared meals turn into something that feels like belonging. And the Soft Orbit, with all its eccentric systems and warm lights, begins to feel less like an obligation and more like a place that has been waiting for them.
A gentle, hopeful story about found family, quiet competence, and the moment you stop running and decide to stay.
The Soft Orbit is the first book in the Soft Orbit Collective series.
