Fractured Command - Alliance Cadets, #2

Spacecraft engineers have one job. make it fly. When a mysterious spacecraft with alien technology takes her best friend prisoner, junior engineer Cassiopeia Requin will stop at nothing to get her back. Reassigned to a brand new deep space cruiser, Cassi and her crew jump on a chance that might be their only opportunity to capture the alien spacecraft. But when they end up transiting into the accretion disk around a black hole, their cruiser is catastrophically damaged, and their chain of command is fractured.
Predators become prey as alien drones close in and cut through the remains of their hull in a desperate fight for working technology. Cassi must improvise, adapt, and use every engineering skill she's learned to hold both her spacecraft and her team together as they spiral toward the event horizon and make a desperate attempt to escape the unrelenting gravitational pull of a black hole.