The Sovereign of Unmapped Hours

Thirteen years ago, legendary Meridian Scout Sera Dawnvore flew into the deep Rift and never came back. Her son Kael has been looking for her ever since — running contracts at the edges of known space, searching the data, refusing to stop believing.

Then a signal arrives. His mother's personal authentication code, broadcasting from the deepest, most unmapped region of the Temporal Rift Fields. Still alive. Or something like it.

With a disgraced commander who has secrets of her own, a brilliant young engineer who sees patterns no one else can, and a ship held together by skill and stubbornness, Kael sets course for the place where time folds back on itself — where something ancient and damaged has been waiting for someone to come and simply listen.

The Sovereign of Unmapped Hours is a sweeping science fiction novel about grief and the refusal to let go, about the lengths we travel for the people we love, and about what it means to make contact with a consciousness older than human memory — not to conquer it, but to understand it.

For readers of Becky Chambers, Ann Leckie, and Ursula K. Le Guin.

Hopeful. Human. Impossible to put down.