Starshine

<p><strong>Space is vast and untamed and it holds many secrets.</strong> <em>Now two individuals from opposite ends of settled space are on a collision course with the darkest of those secrets even as the world threatens to explode around them.</em></p><p><br></p><p>The year is 2322. Humanity has expanded into the stars inhabiting over 100 worlds across a third of the galaxy. Though thriving as never before they have discovered neither alien life nor the key to utopia. Earth struggles to retain authority over far-flung planets and free-wheeling corporations while an uneasy armistice with a breakaway federation hangs by a thread as the former rebels rise in wealth and power.   </p><p>            </p><p>Alexis Solovy is Earth Alliance royalty her father a fallen war hero and her mother an influential military leader. But she seeks only the freedom of space and has made a fortune by reading the patterns in the chaos to discover the hidden wonders of the stars.</p><p><br></p><p>Nothing about her latest objective suggests the secret it conceals will turn her life- not to mention the entire galaxy-upside down. But a chance encounter with a mysterious spy leads to a discovery which will thrust Alex into the middle of a galactic power struggle and a sinister conspiracy whether she likes it or not.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>When faced with its greatest challenge will humanity rise to triumph or fall to ruin?</strong></p><p><em>Aurora Rising</em> is an epic tale of galaxy-spanning adventure of the thrill of discovery and the unquenchable desire to reach ever farther into the unknown. It's a tale of humanity at its best and worst of love and loss of fear and heroism. It's the story of a woman who sought the stars and found more than anyone imagined possible.</p>