This week, I'm waiting on:
Starflight by Melissa Landers
Release date: February 2, 2016
Solara Brooks needs a fresh start,
someplace where nobody cares about the engine grease beneath her fingernails or
the felony tattoos across her knuckles. The outer realm may be lawless, but it's
not like the law has ever been on her side.
Still, off-world travel doesn't come
cheap; Solara is left with no choice but to indenture herself in exchange for
passage to the outer realm. She just wishes it could have been to anyone
besides Doran Spaulding, the rich, pretty-boy quarterback who made her life
miserable in school.
The tables suddenly turn when Doran is
framed for conspiracy on Earth, and Solara cons him into playing the role of
her servant on board the Banshee, a ship manned by an eccentric crew with their
own secrets. Given the price on both Doran and Solara's heads, it may just be
the safest place in the universe.
It's been a long time since Solara has
believed in anyone, and Doran is the last person she expected to trust. But
when the Banshee's dangerous enemies catch up with them, Solara and Doran must
come together to protect the ship that has become their home-and the eccentric
crew that feels like family.
I loved Alienated and its sequel
Invaded so I'm eager to read this new (unrelated as far as I know) novel by
Landers. Her other books had a combination of science fiction and
contemporary teen fiction with humor, romance and suspense so I have
high hopes for this book. I wish she'd been able to write a third book in the
Alienated series (she only got a two book deal) but I think Starflight sounds
like a promising start to a new series.