Starbound

Book two in the series. A fractured family of survivors, they fled a world being devoured by a crystalline plague, their only hope a Spelljammer called the Startail.

When a when a violent commandeering  leaves them crippled and bleeding power in the void, help arrives with a spotlight. She is a celebrity influencer broadcasting to trillions, and her offer is as tempting as it is treacherous: a lifeline to the resort moon of Regis, in exchange for a starring role in her reality show. The deal is public. The fine print is fatal.

But Regis is a paradise with a price tag-a gilded cage of curated sunsets and corporate assassins where contracts have teeth and every favor is a leash. Stripped of their gear and separated from their ship, the crew are no longer guests-they are assets.

Hunted by the city's brutal enforcers and haunted by a secret that could shatter their fragile trust, they discover the beautiful lie is built on a horrifying truth buried deep in the planet's untamed wilds.

They fled a dying world only to be trapped

in a perfect one.