Extremophile: Violet Rain
by Juliana Rew
Book 2 in "The Unwinding" science fiction novel series by Juliana Rew. Violet Rain, a VR expert from the 25th century, joins the crew of time-traveling Watchmen, monitoring the precarious truce between universes from a remote space station. Engineering a rugged tardigrade body to temporarily host her through the extreme conditions of space, she detects a new abnormality--a new Unwinding?