
Emma Smith, working with alien Ba’ren to cure osteosarcoma, pairs up with Sepporinen, a young Ba’ren miner. As political struggles intensify between feuding human and Ba’ren factions, anti-alien sentiment on Earth reaches a lethal pitch. The two young ambassadors must risk everything to help maintain the fragile peace between their two species
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An alien race, the Ba’ren, makes contact with Earth. To jumpstart diplomacy with humans, the Ba’ren offer their advanced medical technology, prompting the United States government to create a joint research project, and to call for the best of the best.
Eighteen-year-old Emma Smith is ready to capitalize on this historic opportunity. She beats thousands of applicants for the position of student ambassador. Emma knows helping the Ba’ren cure osteosarcoma will kick-start her biomedical engineering career, not to mention give her a front-row seat to learn more about the mysterious aliens.
Sepporinen, a young Ba’ren asteroid miner, cares little about meeting humans. He seeks only riches and glory in prospecting the solar system’s asteroids, but the Ba’ren government inexplicably sends him to Earth to assist with the research project, and to work with a young Earth girl.
Emma and Sepporinen draw closer as they work together, and discover far more is at stake than what their respective governments have let on. As political struggles intensify between feuding human and Ba’ren factions, anti-alien sentiment on Earth reaches a lethal pitch. The unlikely pair, determined not to be pawns in this complicated game of life and death, must risk everything to help maintain the fragile peace between their two species.
This is the first novel in the young adult sci-fi series, Star City, appropriate for readers aged 13-113. Be sure to start out with the 3 short story prequels.
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THE TEST
THE MEETING
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AUDIOBOOK
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PRINT BOOK INFO
Perfect Bound / Softcover:
ISBN: 1622535936
ISBN-13: 978-1-62253-593-4
6.14 x 9.21 x 0.6124 (0.912 Lbs)
292 Pages (26/carton)
List Price: $15.95
THE TEAM
Edwin Peng – Author
Emily Gerren – Editor
Lane Diamond – Senior Editor, Interior Designer
D. Robert Pease – Cover Artist, Interior Designer (Image Elements)