"The Stormrider's flight"

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Taz has spent three years proving she's more than just a Guild reject with grease under her fingernails. Aboard the merchant skyship *Stormrider*, she keeps thirty souls aloft with nothing but spare parts, stubborn determination, and engineering solutions that would make her former instructors weep. But when sabotage leaves their ship crippled and drifting toward the nightmare storm known as the Rift, Taz discovers that one of her own crewmates has been planning their destruction all along. With pirates swarming the deck and the ship's heart torn apart by betrayal, she has minutes to choose between following the rules that expelled her—or unleashing the forbidden prototype hidden in her quarters. The crystalline device pulsing with impossible energy could save them all. It could also tear reality apart at the seams. As the *Stormrider* plunges toward the storm that devours ships and souls alike, Taz must decide: die as the engineer she was trained to be, or live as the chaos she was born to become. **Sometimes the only way to fly is to fall first.**