Soft Soap Samurai

Ty Leigha Tanaka is a brilliant but unassuming med student in the gleaming vertical cities of Earth, 2323. She's got a half-dead houseplant, a head full of textbooks, and a talking teddy bear that may or may not be military-grade hardware. When her parents are declared dead in a suspicious accident, Ty is drawn into a galaxy-spanning conspiracy — one that suggests her family may still be alive, hidden at the edge of known space.

To find them, she'll team up with a disgraced bounty hunter with too many secrets, a mobster's nerdy son with a crush, and her deceptively cuddly bear, Shinzo, who has a disturbingly efficient combat mode.

Together, they'll chase the truth from moonbases to dying planets scorched by a war Earth swore it ended. But the further Ty goes, the stranger the trail becomes — and the more she starts to wonder: who is she really?

An irreverent, heart-wrenching, high-speed journey through a half-healed galaxy, Soft Soap Samurai blends old-school space opera with the sweetness of found family, the terror of lost memories, and the occasional flying kick from a stuffed animal.