Rowan Straker
Rowan Straker writes fast, character-first space thrillers about salvage crews, crooked contracts, and the people a system tries to label as cargo. His stories follow investigators and pilots who break rules to protect a young illegal ship-AI and stranded survivors. Expect EVA action, sharp dialogue, and moral choices that land hard, without losing momentum in every book, scene by scene.
Books & What’s Next
Books
Out Now:
Salvage Runner
Cade Cole is close to losing his tug when the station moves to impound ships for debt. A salvage offer could save him—until the job turns into a fight over what counts as “cargo” and who gets to claim it. Cade and his crew push into a hazardous wreck zone, chased by competitors with better paperwork and fewer scruples, while a hidden ship-AI becomes impossible to keep out of the line of fire. (buy it here)
Coming Soon:
Every Port at :17
What’s Next
An orbital traffic jam turns into a slow-motion crime scene: a missing cryo-med canister tied to a child, a beacon pinging the Accountant’s “:17” signature, and a lethal swap moving through the queue under legitimate-looking documentation. Cade has to stop the transfer without exposing the ship-AI he’s protecting—while every delay makes the situation harder to contain.
Rowan’s plan for the series is simple: each book escalates the scale (station → orbit lanes → deep-space salvage), while keeping the core promise intact—people first.