Eighteen years ago, they erased her father. Now, she's going to balance the books.

In the sterile, gilded spires of Helios, silence is the law. Emile Vescere is a curator of ghosts, spending her days cataloging the memories of the dead for a government obsessed with perfection. But her own past is a black hole: her father, a brilliant cyberneticist, was "dissolved" by the Caelus Aristocracy nearly two decades ago, erased from history without a trace.

But ghosts don't always stay dead.

When Emile discovers a hidden signal buried in the static of an old transmission, she unearths a secret that shatters her world: her father is alive. He is being held in the Bastille -- a black-site prison carved into a hollow asteroid, designed to systematically deconstruct the human mind.

To save him, Emile must make a deal with the devil. She teams up with Cynan Karto, a burned-out Intelligence operative who sees the world as a series of cold equations, and Nelak d'Evremonde, a guilt-ridden historian desperate to atone for the atrocities committed by his own family name.

Together, they must navigate a galaxy on the brink of collapse. On the gas giant Caelus, a terrifying new revolution is rising from the toxic "Sump." Led by the cold, mathematical fury of Executor Therese, the Crimson Coil is not just fighting for freedom -- they are fighting for an accounting. Their "Ledger of Scars" demands a life for a life, and they have marked Nelak d'Evremonde as the final payment.

Caught between a Directorate that wants to bury the past and a Rebellion that wants to burn it, Emile must decide what she is willing to sacrifice.

From the neon-lit despair of the Sump to the silent horror of the Bastille, The StitchCount Rebellion is a gritty, heart-wrenching space opera about the cost of survival. It is a story of broken people finding strength in the dark, of a love that defies logic, and of a daughter who will tear the universe apart to bring her father home.

Perfect for fans of Red Rising, The Expanse, and Andor.

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