The novel “Finder” by Suzanne Palmer was published for the first time in 2019. It’s the first book in The Finder Chronicles series.

Fergus Ferguson was tasked with retrieving the “Venetia’s Sword”, a starship stolen from its makers by Arum Gilger, a sort of local boss of the Cerneken colony, or Cernee for its residents. The colony consists of an uneven group of asteroids and artificial wheels joined by a transportation system.

While Fergus Ferguson is in a pressurized cable car of the transportation system, an attack by Gilger’s men threatens to kill him and “Mother” Vahn, the woman traveling in the same car. Fergus is saved by the woman and ends up in the habitat of the Vahn family, a group of practically identical-looking women who immediately make him think they’re clones. It’s only the beginning of a kind of civil war in the colony with the further complication of the Asiig aliens, whose spaceships start flying closer and closer.