Ford Thalassman has everything a twenty-fourth-century private investigator could want. Business is thriving, and his partner, Stan, revels in their growing notoriety and profits. His former client—now serious girlfriend—Dr. Angela Hann leads the groundbreaking Human Embryo Reclamation Operation while living close by. Even his once-fractured relationship with his mother, the formidable Agatha Meiylar, Secretary of Colonial Affairs, is on better terms. But Agatha still has her secrets, drawing Ford’s friend and colleague, Evoleth, into a perilous mission to uncover the truth behind the enigmatic Vestige Project.

When Evoleth vanishes, Ford and Stan brave the frigid wastelands of the Texas Hill Country to find her. But the deeper they dig, the more unsettling truths they uncover—about Evoleth’s captors, their shadowy motives, and a hidden past that refuses to stay buried.

Set four months after the events of Thalassman’s Code, this gripping sequel interweaves the journeys of Ford, Evoleth, and Angela as they face new dangers, unearth buried secrets, and confront ghosts of a forgotten history. As their paths diverge and converge, each will be tested, forging unlikely alliances and battling both new threats and old enemies.

Last Vestige is a story of survival, betrayal, and the resilience of humanity in the face of terrifying technological advances—and the dangerous remnants of a hidden past.