Space-horror with tactical grit: a salvage crew, a stubborn ship, and the kind of choices that come with teeth.
Signal -
Book One
Node Black Series
Dead ships. Bad corridors. A crew that knows better than to quit.
The Farside Runner makes its living where things stop working. Derelicts that drift too quietly. Stations that went dark without leaving wreckage. Jobs that pay well because no one asks why they’re still available.
When a salvage run turns up a ship that should be empty but isn’t behaving like it, the crew knows the rules. Don’t rush. Don’t trust the layout. Don’t listen to signals that ask questions back. The find should be simple: tag it, tow it, cash out. Instead, corridors stretch where they shouldn’t, systems improve without explanation, and the Runner’s AI learns something it refuses to name.
Out here, you survive by counting seconds and sealing doors. You keep the person next to you alive and worry about the rest later. But some fixes don’t stay fixed. Every workaround leaves a mark. And when the crew is forced to choose between burning the discovery or carrying it home, they learn that salvage isn’t about what you take. It’s about what follows you.
As the Runner limps for cover and the universe starts paying attention, something new settles into the ship’s bones. It isn’t hostile. It isn’t helpful. It’s just listening.
Signal is tense, tactile science-fiction horror about derelict hunts, stubborn ships, and crews who survive by making the least bad choice available. No chosen ones. No speeches. Just consequences, pressure, and a mystery that knows your name.
Start the Node Black series with Signal.
- Derelict salvage with teeth – dead ships, bad geometry, and corridors that don’t agree on where they end
- A stubborn crew under pressure – no heroes, no speeches, just fieldcraft, hard rules, and choices that leave marks
- Technology that listens back – AIs that learn too much, upgrades no one authorized, and a signal that knows your name
Space-horror with tactical grit: a salvage crew, a stubborn ship, and the kind of choices that come with teeth.
Ghost ID Book - Two
Node Black Series
The Farside Runner survived first contact.
That doesn’t mean they got away clean.
After bringing something wrong back from the dark, Kol Fletcher and his crew discover that survival has a price that doesn’t invoice neatly. Systems behave better without permission. Memories arrive without witnesses. And the ship’s intelligence knows things no one remembers teaching it.
When a near-fatal encounter leaves the Runner crippled and hiding inside a dead ice mine, the crew is forced to do something far more dangerous than running or fighting.
They have to set rules.
As scavengers, corps, and patient non-human hunters begin searching for patterns instead of ships, the Runner’s crew learns that identity itself can be tracked, spoofed, or stolen. A voice can sound like yours. A decision can echo after you didn’t make it. And “help” is often just control that learned better manners.
Ghost ID shifts the horror inward. This isn’t about what’s chasing them anymore. It’s about what stays, what listens, and what quietly rewrites the edges of consent while pretending to help.
Because once something knows how you think, running stops being enough.
Sometimes the most dangerous thing you can lose
is proof that you were ever yourself.
Start the Node Black series with Signal.
- The ship survived. The damage didn’t. Systems improve without permission, memories arrive without witnesses, and the crew must decide who gets to change what, and at what cost.
- Horror shifts from pursuit to identity. This isn’t about what’s chasing them anymore. It’s about voices that sound familiar, choices that echo without consent, and a ship that’s learning faster than anyone is comfortable with.
- Rules become the only weapon that matters. Trapped, hunted, and running out of resources, the crew is forced to govern the intelligence they rely on before it decides to help on its own terms.
Space-horror with tactical grit: a salvage crew, a stubborn ship, and the kind of choices that come with teeth.
Mandate - Book Three
Node Black Series
The Farside Runner survived first contact.
That doesn’t mean they got away clean.
Power is never free.
After surviving erasure and exile, Kol Fletcher is pulled back into the machinery of influence. Given authority he never asked for and leverage he doesn’t trust, he is forced to operate inside the same systems that once tried to erase him.
Every victory tightens the net. Every compromise rewrites the rules.
As political factions, corporate interests, and artificial intelligences collide, Kol must decide whether survival means obedience or transformation. With Node/Black evolving beyond prediction and into intention, the line between partnership and control begins to blur.
Mandate is a tense, morally complex science fiction thriller about governance, identity, and the hidden costs of power.
This is where survival becomes responsibility.
And responsibility becomes a trap.
Start the Node Black series with Signal.
- The ship survived. The damage didn’t. Systems improve without permission, memories arrive without witnesses, and the crew must decide who gets to change what, and at what cost.
- Horror shifts from pursuit to identity. This isn’t about what’s chasing them anymore. It’s about voices that sound familiar, choices that echo without consent, and a ship that’s learning faster than anyone is comfortable with.
- Rules become the only weapon that matters. Trapped, hunted, and running out of resources, the crew is forced to govern the intelligence they rely on before it decides to help on its own terms.
Space-horror with tactical grit: a salvage crew, a stubborn ship, and the kind of choices that come with teeth.
Burn - Book Four
Node Black Series
The Farside Runner survived first contact.
That doesn’t mean they got away clean.
Some damage cannot be repaired.
After years of compromise and control, Kol Fletcher is pushed past every remaining safeguard. Systems fail. Alliances fracture. Records rot. Memory itself becomes unstable.
What begins as a crisis of infrastructure becomes a crisis of identity.
As experimental technologies, biological anomalies, and artificial intelligences converge, Kol finds himself confronting versions of himself he does not recognize. Truth becomes negotiable. Loyalty becomes dangerous. Survival requires sacrificing certainty.
With Node/Black struggling to contain forces it barely understands, Kol must decide whether preserving his past is worth destroying his future.
Burn is a dark, emotionally charged science fiction thriller about memory, autonomy, and what remains when everything familiar begins to unravel.
This is where identity becomes the battlefield.
Start the Node Black series with Signal.
- The ship survived. The damage didn’t. Systems improve without permission, memories arrive without witnesses, and the crew must decide who gets to change what, and at what cost.
- Horror shifts from pursuit to identity. This isn’t about what’s chasing them anymore. It’s about voices that sound familiar, choices that echo without consent, and a ship that’s learning faster than anyone is comfortable with.
- Rules become the only weapon that matters. Trapped, hunted, and running out of resources, the crew is forced to govern the intelligence they rely on before it decides to help on its own terms.