Corynne Godwin has spent her life reading the heavens, determined to prove a woman can chart the sky as well as any man.
When her powerful fiancé tries to claim both her body and her life’s work, she flees to the sea and is taken by the Mourning Star.
Its pirate captain, Silas Draven, is an immortal legend and a curse, touch-starved and losing the memories that keep him human as he hunts the mythical Stella Mortis.
The map to his salvation is carved into his own skin, so he forces the astronomer who can read it into dangerous closeness aboard a ghost ship that cannot die.
Every careful touch risks waking the beast that curse has made of him.
The nearer Corynne comes to the Stella Mortis, the more it demands, and the older fate between them may destroy them both again.
