Navigating the Stars

"The answer is no, Lyra," my mother utters her favorite—I swear—phrase.

No means I have to travel with them to another planet—again.

No means leaving all my friends fifty years in the past. Thanks, Einstein.

Seventeen-year-old Lyra Daniels cant truly blame Einstein or her parents for their impending move across the Milky Way Galaxy. Its all due to the invention of the Q-net, which made traveling the vast distances in space possible—with one big caveat: the time dilation. But that never stopped Lyras ancestors from exploring the Milky Way, searching for resources and exoplanets to colonize. What they didnt expect to find is life-sized terracotta Warriors buried on twenty-one different exoplanets.

... Make that twenty-two.

As the Galaxys leading experts on the Warriors, Lyras parents are thrilled by the new discovery, sending them—and her—fifty years into the future. Her social life in ruins, she fills her lonely days by illegally worming into the Q-net. The only person close to her age is the annoyingly irresistible security officer who threatens to throw her into the brig.

After the planet they just left goes silent—meaning no communications from them at all—security has bigger problems to deal with than Lyra, especially when vital data files go missing. But thats just the beginning, because theyre not as alone as they thought on their new planet... and suddenly time isnt the only thing working against them.