Jax Bremen's ship is falling apart. His engineer just quit. And he's got seventy-two hours to find a replacement before the best-paying job he's seen in months slips through his fingers.

Enter Kallie—a brilliant engineer stuck fixing coolant systems in dive bars when she should be running a ship's engine room. She's overqualified, desperate, and smart enough to know that Jax's "simple cargo run" is anything but simple.

One broken ship. One impossible job. And a partnership that might just get them both killed.

Welcome to the Aquilian Nebula. Welcome to the first run.