Salvage

Ava lives on the Parastrata, a deep space trading vessel where men hold most of the power. As the captain's daughter she enjoys some privileges and a measure of standing, yet she is denied an education: she cannot read, write, or tolerate heavy gravity. When her father arranges for her to wed into another merchant crew, she expects a dignified future. Instead she is betrayed and cast out, and she slips aboard a mail sloop heading for Earth to leave behind both her history and what awaits her.

The journey nearly kills her. She recovers in the home of a stranger on the Gyre, a drifting island of refuse and salvaged junk in the Pacific Ocean. There she learns what family, belonging, and trust can mean, and she starts to build her own resilience and sense of self.

The novel is a science fiction story for teen readers about choice, independence, rebellion, and kinship, set on a future Earth shaped by climate change.