Kitra: 1 (The Kitra Saga)

Stranded in space: no fuel no way home...and no one coming to help.Nineteen-year-old Kitra Yilmaz dreams of traveling the galaxy like her Ambassador mother. But soaring in her glider is the closest she can get to touching the stars--until she stakes her inheritance on a salvage Navy spaceship. On its shakedown cruise Kitras ship plunges into hyperspace stranding Kitra and her crew light years away.Tensions rise between Kitra and her shipmates: the handsome programmer Fareedh; Marta biologist and Kitras ex-girlfriend; Peter the panicking engineer and the oddball alien navigator Pinky.Now running low on air and food itll take all of them working together to get back home.---Kitra released at the height of the COVID lock-down is a story of isolation teamwork and hope (amid an ocean of dystopian YA). It continues to be a hit -- probably because its so spot-on thematically. It stars a queer woman of color and that has been a draw as well. Kitra was featured in bookshop.orgs newsletter in April 2021 a full year after its release -- a testament to its endurance. The sequel Sirena will be published September 2021.