Cathedral of the Dead (Gravebreaker Saga Book 1)

In the year 2892 AC, the war is long dead, but its graveyards still drift.Kael Voss is a salvage diver from Caron’s Hold, a brutal ring station built around a dead battle-moon in the Grave Belt. He makes his living boarding ruined warships, stripping relics, surviving bad contracts, and walking out of places that kill better men. He is not a knight, not a saint, and not a chosen hero. He is a worker born among wreckage.When Kael and his crew board an ancient mortuary warship known as the Cathedral of the Dead, the job turns into a nightmare almost immediately. The ship is not truly dead. Its bells still remember. Its prison systems still think. Its buried black protocols are still waiting for the right body to wake them.Kael survives a forced bond with an ancient war-frame never meant for ordinary flesh, and in doing so becomes something far more dangerous than a scavenger. Deep within the ship, he discovers a prison chapel built to contain the dead, a bell-born prisoner named Lady Marrow, a rival sovereign war-machine, and a reader-class corruption feeding on unresolved names and stolen grief.To survive, Kael must descend through the lower custody routes of a dying death-hulk, sever ancient signal systems, fight through crypts full of weaponised memory, and stop the Cathedral of the Dead from spreading its corrupted dead-sequence into the Grave Belt itself.But survival is only the beginning.Because when Kael escapes the wreck, he will no longer be just another diver.He will be the first living Black Host to return from the grave. Read more