Mechanical Heart — Cassandra Pierce

Brent's first run as Captain of his own ship is largely uneventful. The biggest challenge he faces is his perfectionist, demanding father, who does not trust even his own son when it comes to his interstellar shipping empire.



But even aggravating fathers fall by the wayside when Brent and his crew come across a strange bit of salvage: a pod, at least a century old, that proves to contain a man with no memory of who he is or how he came to be sealed away...