A Debt to the Stars

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>A Kirkus BEST OF 2023 selection!</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)></span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>... a journey of healing and heroism... </em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> - </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Kirkus Reviews</strong><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> (starred review) </em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>... </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>uproarious</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>...</span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> scifi that gets readers thinking.</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> - </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Publishers Weekl</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>y (</span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>BookLife Editor's Pick)</em></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>With space-faring predators circling the planet Earth's only hope is an aged heiress with faltering prosthetics and her foul-mouthed extaraterrestrial forensic accountant.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Diana Roark heiress scientist and adventurer never wanted to end up as the richest person in human history. But she inherits her father's fortune and tries to spend her wealth to benefit humanity. Then First Contact - with the alien </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Known Economy</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> - utterly changes life on earth and she's left with a business empire worth almost nothing and emotional debts she can never repay.</span></p><p><br></p><p>Thirty years after First Contact she's managed to rebuild her empire almost by accident when the <em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Known Economy</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> returns. This time they've come for payment on Earth's debt - and their price is the harvest of human sentience. Diana now aged and sick with a disease the rest of humanity is immune to teams up with a gelatinous purple </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Neoooxcolu </em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>who's been assigned as her alien Account Representative. Together they must find a way to buy the planet's freedom.</span></p><p><br></p><p>The aliens will kill to stop her if her own terrible debts don't finish her first ...</p>