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Lost Solace
Lost Solace
Series · 5 books · 2017-2023
By
Karl Drinkwater
Books in series
#1
Lost Solace
2017
They’re called the Lost Ships … but sometimes they come back. And when they do the crews are missing, while the ships have been strangely altered, rumoured to be full of horrors. Opal Imbiana has been seeking something her whole life. It’s a secret so precious she’s willing to risk her life recovering it from a recently discovered Lost Ship, in a lonely nebula far from colonised space. She’s just one woman, entering an alien and lethal environment. But with the aid of an amazing AI companion and experimental armoured suit, Opal might just stand a chance.
#2
Chasing Solace
2019
Opal’s first Lost Ship was horrifying. The second will test her limits. The legendary Lost Ships exist, and they harbour nightmarish horrors. Opal knows. She barely survived her first encounter with one. Despite escaping, she failed to find what she was looking for: her lost sister. Now Opal must board a second derelict Lost Ship to seek answers, and this one’s even more monstrous, a sickening place of death and decay. Only the voice of Athene – Opal’s AI companion – can guide her through the darkness. But can a human and an AI ever truly trust each other?
#3
Hidden Solace
2022
She survived hell. Now her real problems begin. Opal Imbiana is many things to many people. Hero. Traitor. Soldier. Deserter. Criminal. Explorer. Survivor. She finally achieved her life's to rescue her little sister from the utterly alien Null zone. But the world she returns to has changed. Her friends are gone, and her enemies are more powerful than ever. In the bleakest situations, it takes an exceptional mind to keep hope alive. Ideal for fans of sentient AI ships, as found in Brandon Sanderson's Skyward books or Embers of War by Gareth L. Powell.
#4
Raising Solace
2022
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. At the end of Hidden Solace, Athene made a " I'm coming for you. Anything that stands in my way will be neutralised. Destroyed. It will be probability-manipulated out of the equation. Out of existence . It will be absolutely Sevened . Please, my precious Opal, hold on just a bit longer. I am on my way." The most powerful AI in the universe is coming for her friend. There will be answers. There will be suffering. Ideal for fans of films like The Abyss, Underwater, and Sphere.
#5
Finding Solace
2023
She has a family. Now it’s time to find a home.
Opal, Athene and Clarissa are finally free of Aseides’ torture ship, but the past always catches up. Their enemies remain powerful, persistent and cruel. True escape will require more courage and strength than ever before, in order to achieve what others believed is impossible. To go home.
Every journey has an end. But freedom comes at a price.
Author
Karl Drinkwater
Author · 16 books