Untethered

One more shipment. One more job. One more chance to keep her ship flying. Natalie has spent most of her life among the stars. Her ageing freighter is her home, her livelihood, and the last thing she can afford to lose. But with automated corporate fleets driving independent captains out of business, making ends meet means taking jobs she'd rather refuse. This shipment should be enough to keep her afloat a while longer. Then the ship starts behaving strangely. And someone has been tampering with the cargo bay. Is one of her crew hiding something? Or is there something else aboard? With every new systems failure, Natalie finds herself questioning not just the ship's condition, but the people she trusts to keep it running. Untethered is a character-driven hard science fiction story about life aboard a working freighter, the price of survival, and the compromises people make when their choices begin to disappear.