Supernova Heat (Tales from the Rusty Splinter, #3)
About
The crew of The Rusty Splinter survived the heist of the century, but the Outer Rim never lets its outcasts rest.
Their mysterious new broker offers a fortune in clean iridium for a single data drive hidden aboard Gehenna—an illegal, brutalist refinery suspended in the magnetic field of a dying red dwarf. It sounds like a suicide run, but for Captain Zane and his fiercely loyal pack, it’s just another day on the job.
Until they see what Gehenna is truly refining.
For Xara, the blazing Ignarian who serves as the pack’s fiery heart, the station is a nightmare brought to life. It is the very slaughterhouse that tortured her, a place that uses her people as living, screaming batteries. Confronted with the architect of her suffering, Xara’s trauma threatens to push her to a critical meltdown that could destroy them all.
To pull her back from the edge of a supernova, her pack must surrender to a primal, all-consuming intimacy. Tariq’s chilling control, Zane’s predatory dominance, and Kael’s indestructible strength are the only things that can ground her blazing fury. In a universe ruled by cold metal and corporate cruelty, they will dive into the heart of a dying star to prove that no one touches their pack and lives to tell the tale.