<p><strong>For fans of Star Wars Avatar: The Last Airbender and Skyward - epic adventure extraordinary powers and heroes who discover there's far more to them than they ever imagined.</strong></p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p>One accidental jump. The far side of the galaxy. No way home.</p><p></p><p>When armed mercenaries attack their archaeological dig in the jungles of Central America Casey and James Hawkins and their friend Heather flee into the jungle - and stumble upon a secret that has been buried for centuries: a sleek obsidian alien spacecraft that no one was ever supposed to find.</p><p></p><p>In a desperate attempt to escape Casey triggers the ship's controls.</p><p></p><p>One heartbeat later they're on the other side of the galaxy.</p><p></p><p>The ship they've accidentally commandeered is the legendary <em>Shaina Ariana</em> - the most advanced most coveted vessel in the known universe. A powerful emperor has spent years consolidating power across star systems building a galactic empire on blood and buried secrets. He'll do anything to claim it. He'll offer alliance. Then treachery. Then chains.</p><p>Casey didn't come to this side of the galaxy looking for a fight. But he won't leave without his crew - and he's not handing over the ship.</p><p></p><p>Outrunning one emperor is only the beginning.</p><p></p><p>Shape-shifting assassins alien planet discoveries ancient alien technology and a galactic conflict on the brink of ignition - somehow two brothers and the friend who has always been family are the only ones positioned to stop it. Armed with little more than their wits each other and a legendary sword with a power all its own this unlikely crew must outmaneuver an entire empire to survive.</p><p></p><p>This is sci-fi action adventure at its most epic - a fast-paced interstellar adventure for teen and young adult readers who want a universe they can get completely lost in.</p><p></p><p><strong>Getting home has never felt so impossible. Saving the galaxy was never part of the plan.</strong></p>