Claire Kovalik and her crew of four finish repairs on the network of beacons that facilitate near instantaneous communication in the solar system. This will be their last mission because, from then on, repairs will be conducted by drones. As the crew of the LINA finishes their final beacon, they pick up a distress signal. The crew follows the signal to the edge of known space where they find a luxury cruise liner lost decades prior. What happened to the cruise ship, Aurora, is unknown. It departed with the ultra-rich and the ultra-famous. Claire decides to investigate. No one on the ship responds to Claire and her crew; so, they see an opportunity for salvage. If they could avoid their corporate overlords, the salvage money would set the whole crew up for life. Claire could buy her own ship and get out from underneath the thumb of the Verux Corporation. But once onboard, Claire and crew find a horror scene of dead and mutilated celebrities. What happened to these people? And is it starting to happen again to Claire’s crew?

Dead Silence is a first person point of view horror novel in a science fiction setting. Claire is the main and only viewpoint of the book. She’s complicated, sympathetic, and in a no win situation. The book switches between the present, which has Claire being interviewed by two Verux Corporation suits, and the past where the boarding of the Aurora happened. The themes include mental health and corporate greed. The book reads fast with enough pauses to sit and stew in the atmospheric horror.