Orion's Phantom

The perfect soldier has one fatal flaw: he is a lie.

Milo Shepherd was built to be obedient, precise, and utterly unaware that his life was a construct of AstraDyne, the corporate power ruling known space. His loyalty was guaranteed by the Neurolattice, a neural device that turned his mind into the encryption key for their darkest secret-Project Orion: a gateway to the volatile, reality-warping Outer Vector.

Now, the Lattice is failing. As his false memories dissolve, a forbidden starmap pulses beneath his skin. Hunted by his former commander, Brant-a man who defined his past and now seeks to erase his future-Milo has nowhere left to turn. His only hope lies with two uneasy allies: Leyda Vega, the surgeon who helped build his prison, and Tess Marin, a sharp-witted smuggler with a history he is only beginning to remember.

Their final, desperate gambit is to plunge into the fractured reality of the Outer Vector. In a realm where the laws of physics collapse and the truth is unstable, Milo must confront the ultimate cost of his freedom: the potential loss of everything that makes him human.