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.
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.
