The Cleaner the Cat and the Space Station

<h4><strong>There's an alien space station orbiting the Earth secretly protecting us from invasion. And it's recruiting humans like you to train as fighter pilots.</strong></h4><p><br></p><p><em>A heart-warming first contact adventure featuring an unlikely heroine aliens astronauts a shape-shifting Welsh dragon cyborgs spies space pirates - and trees in space!</em></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Since leaving Ethiopia Hanna Abebe has survived in London by working illegally as a cleaner. But her life unravels after a sexual assault; living rough she loses the resulting pregnancy and very nearly her life. Salvation arrives and Hanna's rescuers welcome her into an unusual new family: a school for recruits to the <em>Shantivira</em> the secret space station which protects the Earth. Then Hanna uncovers a traitor in their midst . . .</p><p><br></p><p>Lucy Cooper is horse riding on Dartmoor when a mysterious shape-shifter appears out of the mist and offers her a place on the <em>Shantivira's</em> fighter pilot training programme. Unnerved Lucy's instinct is to refuse. But an organisation claiming the <em>Shantivira's</em> motives are more sinister approaches her and persuades her to become their spy . . .</p><p><br></p><p>Joe Llewellyn is bored. Being the captain of the <em>Shantivira</em> isn't the challenge he'd hoped. Plus he'd like to inform the Earth about aliens but his boss won't permit it. Then a stray asteroid hits the International Space Station and Joe is forced to let the cat out of the bag . . .</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h4><strong>This uplifting blend of fantasy and science fiction is a must-read for fans of Becky Chambers Ursula Le Guin Ben Aaronovitch Douglas Adams and <em>Doctor Who</em>.</strong></h4><p><br></p>