The Stars Between Us
A Novel
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- $11.99
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Publisher Description
Bridgerton meets Illuminae in this explosive, romantic space opera where danger and deception lurk behind glamour and wealth.
Vika Hale longs for a better life than that of a barmaid on a struggling planet, but her dreams have always seemed out of reach despite the mysterious benefactor who bankrolled her education. When the elusive billionaire dies and names Vika in his will, she’s whisked away to a glittering and glamorous new world as the ward of his heir. Suddenly, her wildest dreams don’t seem so impossible.
But when someone targets the will’s heirs in a series of terrifying bombings, Vika’s new life is thrown into uncertainty. Knowing that she may be next, Vika teams up with the one person she’d rather keep at arm’s length—her guardian’s mysterious new assistant, Sky Foster. She doesn't trust Sky, but he may be the only one who can help her discover the bomber’s identity before she becomes the next victim. As Vika grows closer to Sky, she realizes she may not escape these new threats unscathed. Sky is keeping a secret and it's one that could unravel everything.
In The Stars Between Us, Cristin Terrill sweeps readers away to a world where secrets are currency and love is the most dangerous risk of all.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This lavish space opera by Terrill (Here Lies Daniel Tate) combines classic romance and sci-fi tropes to deliver a tale of greed, love, and skullduggery. While 18-year-old Viktoria Hale's unknown benefactor provides some necessities, she and her family, who live on the planet Philomenus, still struggle to make do, until she's visited by attorney Archer Sheratan. He informs Vika that her benefactor, billionaire Rigel Chapin from neighboring Ploutos, has died, and that his will stipulates that his son, Leo, must marry her to claim his inheritance. But then Leo dies in a bombing, apparently a target of a group rebelling against the aristocracy. Fearing for Vika's safety, Chapin's new heirs invite her to stay with them and, on Ploutos, she enjoys the high life and gradually grows closer to prickly Sky Foster, the heir's assistant. But as the attacks increase in frequency, Vika and Sky worry that the rebels will stop at nothing to secure their deaths. Though descriptions of the opulent setting eventually peter out, disrupting narrative immersion, Terrill handily utilizes a mysterious heir, a secret antagonist, and a mystifying crime for a potent rags-to-riches romance. Characters cue as white. Ages 14–up.
