The Titan Trap

He hijacked her ship to stay alive. Now the only way out is together.


Cassidy Evans flies the dullest route in the solar system: the monthly supply run to the Consortium’s maximum-security prison on Titan, in a wheezing freighter she inherited from her father along with a mountain of debt. It’s mind-numbing, barely profitable, and exactly the kind of nothing life that keeps a person invisible — until the day an escaped inmate walks into her cargo hold, puts a pulse pistol to her head, and orders her to fly.


Derek Tagawa is supposed to be a murderer. He’s certainly gorgeous enough to be dangerous — but the more of his story Cassidy hears, the less it adds up. Because Derek isn’t a killer. He's a scientist, buried in MaxSec — the Consortium’s private oubliette for the people it wants the galaxy to forget — for the crime of discovering what the government’s celebrated reclamation project was really doing with the billions the Cloud left dead. His colleague was executed for knowing. Derek was framed and erased. And now he’s the only witness left.


The moment Cassidy let him aboard, she became an accomplice. Her ship, her freedom, her clean-enough record — all forfeit, with a Defense Fleet squadron already scrambling to run them down. She’s got no future left in Gaian space… and no one but the fugitive who ruined it standing between her and a cell of her own.


Two people with nothing left to lose, one dying freighter, and a secret the Consortium will burn worlds to keep. As Cassidy and Derek run for the edge of the system — and the truth that could bring an empire down — the last thing either of them counts on is the one thing neither can afford: trusting each other with far more than their lives.