Evan Latham is three days from losing his ship when a routine asteroid claim starts scanning wrong.

Buried inside a low-value rock is something no survey should have missed: an ancient alien hulk, damaged, hidden, and still capable of waking one narrow branch of impossible technology. For Evan, the discovery looks like a debt solution -- until every test leaves a trace, every breakthrough carries a cost, and every official channel starts sounding like a cleaner word for theft.

As station medic Lena Corbett spots the human damage behind the miracle, broker Neema Arendt maps the dirty legal weather closing around it, and Helix acquisitions director Rafe Sayer moves to seize the event through chain-of-custody language and civilized procedure, Evan has to decide what this find really is: private salvation, public danger, or the first threshold of an age too large to stay hidden.

Dead Rock Claim is a fast, grounded near-future science-fiction thriller about labor, leverage, first-contact technology, and the price of trying to keep a miracle out of the wrong hands.

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• Mystery, Thriller & SuspenseThrillersTechnothrillers
• Science Fiction & FantasyScience FictionFirst Contact
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• Publication Date: April 18, 2026
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• Print Length: 187 Pages
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