In the depths of a remote asteroid mine, life has one rule: don’t draw attention.
Twelve-year-old Jack Abbott has lived by that rule his whole life — keeping his head down, his routes memorised, and his curiosity carefully hidden. Then a man is executed in front of the assembled workforce, and something falls from his pocket as the body is dragged past.
Jack picks it up.
That single, instinctive act leads him deep into the asteroid’s forgotten tunnels, to two abandoned spacesuits, a sealed airlock — and a damaged courier ship that has been waiting, quietly and patiently, for a very long time.
The intelligence aboard that ship is called Aggie. She was designed to help humanity. Instead, she has been hunted, hidden, and all but destroyed by the very corporations that claim to serve it. Now, with her power failing and time running out, she has one remaining hope: a malnourished twelve-year-old boy who has never seen the sky.
Together, they hatch an escape that will cost more than either of them imagined — and set in motion a chain of events that will echo across human space for two hundred years.
The first book in the Jackrabbit series. A story about what happens when the most dangerous thing a person can do is simply refuse to stay where they’ve been put.
