Some discoveries are too extraordinary to belong to anyone.Geneticist Kaelin Ash understands how living things heal. Rebuilding her own life is proving far harder.Still carrying the end of something she has not finished grieving, Kaelin joins the deep-range space exploration vessel Vigil Watch, hoping that distance from Earth and an impossible new mission will give her something else to focus on.Then the crew encounters a vast biological structure drifting through space.It grows. It reacts. It regenerates. And Kaelin begins to suspect that it may be far more than simply alive.What starts as a scientific breakthrough quickly becomes a struggle over who has the right to study, protect or control a form of life unlike anything humanity has encountered before. As the mission fractures and powerful interests close in, Kaelin must decide how far she is willing to go to defend something humanity does not yet understand, and whether intervention can ever truly be separated from exploitation.Complicating everything is Reyes, the Vigil Watch's quietly confident tactical officer. The closer they are drawn together, the harder it becomes for Kaelin to resist the habit that has already cost her once: disappearing into the work and calling it devotion.With Jimmy, her enhanced and extremely opinionated talking cat, at her side, and a crew that cannot agree on what it owes the thing it has found, Kaelin makes a decision she will not be able to take back.Everything That Heals is the first book in the Kaelin Ash series. Character-driven sapphic science fiction with a slow-burning romance, a first-contact mystery, real science lightly worn, dry humour and choices with consequences that cannot be undone.Kaelin and Reyes's story begins here and continues across the series.Perfect for readers who enjoy emotionally intelligent science fiction where discovery brings danger, hope carries a cost and the greatest threat may be humanity's belief that everything it finds is there for the taking.Some things can be repaired.Others have to be understood.And some connections have the power to change everything.
