A Chance of Light by Claudine Kapel

Spaceships don’t just disappear... When an alien spaceship vanishes after crashing in the Mojave Desert, Ryan Cole and his team are tasked with finding the craft and securing its cache of advanced technology. The investigation proves perilous as others are also hunting for the ship, including arms dealer Antoine Drake and his alien allies. When Cole agrees to help a woman from his past, it leads to a dangerous encounter with Drake and startling revelations about the alien presence on the planet. He finds himself in a race against time to uncover the location of the spaceship and the nature of its mission. But discovering the secrets of beings from other worlds comes with a price. Because when humans and aliens collide, the truth can be deadly.