The Wreckage Keepers

Maren Calder works the salvage yards at Twin Pines, where frozen containers hold secrets nobody is paid to remember. When she lifts a keycard from a locked drawer and opens Container Seventeen, she finds what no wrecker should ever see: a preserved body catalogued under a name she's never been told, her missing sister, Elin. The facility's overseer, Whitfield, calls from a dead line with warnings that come too late. Della Crane, the network's silent archivist, has already flagged the breach. Maren's only ally is Junior, her aging dog, and Abe Drummer, a driver who knows more than he admits about what the chapel network buries in plain sight. As Maren digs deeper, she discovers the wreckage isn't cargo. It's inventory. The Curator runs an operation that catalogues the dead and produces exact replicas of the living, walking files of people who no longer exist. Maren's sister isn't missing. She's archived. And the replica wearing her sister's face is already moving through the world, answering to handlers Maren can see on no network she can name. With Nurse Hollow pressing her from the clinic and a night watchman named Rove offering cryptic sanctuary, Maren faces a single, irreversible choice: raid the chapel network's strike team and burn the catalogue down, or disappear into the wreckage she was hired to keep.