<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Pearl has survived for generations behind the Shell. A swirling crushing sphere of rock that is equal parts fortress graveyard and the planet's only remaining source of wealth. Most people are smart enough to stay out of it.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Dranek Ariod would very much like to be one of those people. He just wants to find a drill motor and go home. But a parts run with his aged opinionated mentor becomes something far bigger when they stumble across a young woman from a stolen ship carrying two mysterious crates no one was supposed to survive long enough to know about.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Tisera Noiro barely made it off a doomed cruise liner alive. Now hunted exhausted and no longer in possession of a secret her father pressed into her hands just before he was killed she has no one left and nowhere safe to run. What's inside those crates could change the fate of an entire planet. It might also get her killed before she understands why.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>And a former station security overseer recently demoted and not quite what he appears has a very bad feeling about all of it.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Pirates are just the beginning. The real threat wears a respectable face and title and he's already in motion. Arming ships that don't officially exist dismantling the people in his way and pointing something far worse than greed at the people everyone else forgot.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>A mismatched crew a ship that wasn't supposed to exist and a head start that's burning fast.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Twilight of Eclipse</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>&nbsp;is the first book in the StarVein series. A gritty space adventure about accidental heroes impossible odds and what it means to find your people in the last place you expected.</span></p>