Cities of Smoke and Starlight

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The series is perfect for those who loved the world of <em>Divine Rivals</em> wanted to soar with Jim Hawkins in <em>Treasure Planet</em> and wished <em>Rogue One</em> had a romantic hate-to-love subplot.</strong></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Two tortured souls. One world on the brink of war.</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Kase Shackley is an embittered hover pilot still reeling from the night his sister died in his arms. He's a screw up in every sense so when a pilot nearly dies on his watch he faces serious charges. Seeking to clear his name he flies a ragtag crew to a lost and dangerous land from which they might never return. If only he didn't have to work with the infuriating bookshop </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>girl</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> who insulted him with Shakespeare...</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Hallie Walker top scholar at the University is jaded by the glittering society she'd always dreamed of joining. Raised in the mountains she fled to the city to forget her painful past. When she loses her bookshop job and the promise of school tuition she agrees to a top-secret government mission if only for the promised substantial sum upon her return. Now if she could just ignore the ungrateful arrogant prat of a pilot...</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In a world of hoverships and crumbling First Earth artifacts it's up to Hallie and Kase to accomplish the impossible: secure an alliance with an elusive mystical race to help defend against a kingdom with dangerous technology and ancient magic. If they fail the war will be lost before it even begins.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Cities of Smoke & Starlight</em> is a heart-wrenching character-driven steampunk novel featuring a clean slow burn enemies-to-lovers romance.</strong></p><p></p>