Acceleration Clause

When corporate lawyer Cal Ransom is driven onto the crew of the repo ship Hard Bargain by predatory contract enforcement, he becomes entangled in the search for the missing research vessel Celestial Aura. As rival ships close in and suspicion falls on him, Cal uncovers links between contract tampering, corporate espionage, compromised machine systems, and an intelligence aboard the Aura that multiple factions want to control.