Periphage Blues

In a dive bar on the back side of nowhere, smuggler Samuel Whitt meets Color of Air. He thinks he's playing her. Turns out she's a man-eater. Literally. That should have been the end of it—instead, he's trapped in her mind, a passenger watching her wear his face.

To survive, they'll have to work together. But someone wants Color of Air weaponized, and they'll erase anyone who knows she exists. From smoke-filled back rooms to black-market labs to a collector's gallery of stone corpses, Samuel and Color of Air chase a conspiracy through the back alleys of civilized space—one that reveals Samuel's own memories were never his to begin with.

For fans of Murderbot, The Expanse, and Timothy Zahn, Periphage Blues is a gripping sci-fi thriller with a noir edge, full of survival, identity, and a partnership neither one chose.