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Everything That Heals
Paperback
Series: Kaelin Ash, Book 1
ISBN13: 9781066855360
Publisher: Ash & Ember Press
Published: Sep 30 2026
Pages: 388
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.86 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A sapphic first contact novel with a slow burn romance, a living thing in deep space that heals itself, and a talking cat who was never asked whether he wanted to be clever.
Geneticist Kaelin Ash built Jimmy. She pushed a neural regeneration study past its ethics approval, and he woke up able to talk. He has been telling her exactly what he thinks of her ever since.
Three weeks after Priya walks out, Kaelin takes a posting on the deep space exploration ship Vigil Watch, cat included, because distance feels easier than grief.
Then the crew finds something drifting in the dark. Vast. Scarred. Alive. Cut it and the wound closes in seconds. Watch it and it watches back.
The medics can see what it might cure. Command can see what it might be worth. Kaelin can see what nobody else wants to: it never agreed to be studied. Neither did Jimmy.
And then there's Reyes. The tactical officer who talks to Jimmy as if he's a person, enforces every rule without pretending the rules are perfect, and can tell when Kaelin is disappearing into the work and calling it devotion.
She can also tell when Kaelin is about to cross a line.
Kaelin crosses it anyway.
Everything That Heals is book one of the Kaelin Ash series. Thoughtful, character-driven sapphic science fiction with a first contact mystery, real science worn lightly, dry humour, and a romance that begins here and builds across the series.
For readers of Becky Chambers, Everina Maxwell and Emily Tesh.
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