Rust Gambit: Awakening (Junk Fleet Book 2)

She freed ten thousand ghosts. Then she forgot why. Two years after the rust left her ship, Cass Vero is a captain who learns her own life by reading it in her own handwriting. Three memories. Four journals. A crew that keeps the receipts. Then the ghost fleet comes home. The pilots Cass freed are split. The Redeemed want a new world. The Unforgiven want Earth - and they've burned a colony to prove it. Both sides want the same thing: for Cass to judge them. The Colonial Fleet wants her in a box - and this time, they've signed the order. And the woman who started the war ten thousand years ago has woken up, wearing Cass's hands, asking for a daughter Cass isn't sure she ever was.Outnumbered four thousand to forty, running on a short inventory and everything true, out loud, Cass will do the one thing her family never could: pay the price on purpose - and turn a prison fleet into a people.Eyes open. Hands empty. The war she forgot is the war she has to end.Junk Fleet, Book 2 - a space opera of found family, amnesia twists, living ships, and a captain at war with her own blood. Best read in order, starting with Rust Gambit: Unwanted.