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.
