The Celaran Ruins — Michael McCloskey

The Celaran Ruins is the sixth book in the PIT series.

Telisa Relachik studied to be a xenoarchaeologist at a time when humans had found alien artifacts but hadn't encountered live aliens. She joins a group of artifact smugglers and ends up with a life more amazing than she could have imagined.

Forced into service by an alien she once befriended, Telisa, along with Cilreth, Siobhan, Caden, Jason and Imanol are sent to a distant world to investigate a mysterious alien race for their new master.