The cover of the book "Beachcomber" by Kate Clarke features two women during sunset. One woman with blonde hair, dressed in a business suit and coat, is walking towards the camera. The other woman with red hair, freckles, and dressed in casual outdoor clothing, is sitting on the ground, looking to the side. In the background, there are industrial structures and ships, creating a contrast between nature and industry.

Alexis Miller has spent eight years flying solo, just her and Beachcomber threading the cargo lanes of Imperial space. She's good at it. She doesn't need anyone.
Then Sage Morgan walks up her ramp looking for work, and everything Alexis thought she knew about herself begins to change.
But Sage is carrying more than her engineer's toolkit. Two years of solitary investigation into her father's murder have led her to Amaranth port — and to the attention of people who would prefer the truth stay buried. People with resources, reach, and no hesitation about using either.
Suddenly Alexis isn't just flying cargo. She's protecting the woman she loves, navigating a conspiracy that reaches further than either of them imagined, and discovering that the life you never planned for can become the only one worth having.
Because sometimes the right person walks into your life at exactly the wrong moment. And sometimes, if you're very lucky, they bring the family you didn't know you needed with them.

Coming Soon

The sequel to Beachcomber, Wilder will be published in late July 2026.

Eighteen months married, and Alexis and Sage Miller have found their rhythm. Beachcomber is back where she belongs, carrying cargo across the sector, and their family — two daughters, one ship, a life built from love and choice — is everything either of them ever wanted.

Then a friend goes missing on the frontier, and Alexis takes them somewhere no one expected: a wild, uncharted world at the edge of Imperial space, where the jungle holds secrets that will change everything humanity thinks it knows about the universe.

Wilder is the story of what happens when the extraordinary finds you anyway — and what it means to face the unknown with the people you love beside you.

 

Kate’s short stories have moved to their own dedicated page here at

https://www.kateclarkebooks.com/short-stories