Stowaway
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Last published Tue, Nov 28, 2017
Running for her life. Living in the walls.
Ada Xander has just escaped death in the Kuiper Colonies. Now she's hitched a ride on a pirate freighter heading in-system, hoping she can get away from the men who killed her mother and sister, and find answers about what happened to her father. But first she'll have to survive the journey. No one is safe in space.
Especially not stowaways.
"Stowaway" is a short story prequel to the ongoing Starship Fairfax series.
Titles in The Starship Fairfax Series:
0.25: Stowaway (a prequel short story)
0.5: The Trials of Io (a newsletter-exclusive short prequel story)
0.75: Totaled (a free short prequel story)
Book 1: The Lunar Gambit
Book 2: The Hidden Prophet
Book 3: The Neptune Contingency
Book 4: The Star Wizard (coming soon)
Book 5: The Sons of Jupiter (coming soon)
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