❖ Interstellar pilot and ex-adventurer Alex Gallegos must keep their team safe on an icy moon as sentient storms threaten to repeat the tragedy that ended their last career. ❖
Everyone in the United Inhabited Solar Systems (for some reason, UIS for short) knows to stay away from Mahaha. The icy moon is notorious for failed probe landings and research missions that end in tragedy: the only people to ever venture to its surface needed rescuing after just two weeks.
When a prestigious research group decides they want a turn, they ask Alex Gallegos to lead the team. Perfectly qualified and haunted by their past, Alex accepts, hoping to make up for old mistakes and get just a little further from the earth they've left behind.
Two months into the seven-month mission, the team is struggling with discontent, damaged equipment, and blizzards acting less and less like normal weather. As Mahaha moves out of range of help and the storms take on a more malicious character, Alex must face the one foe they could never have prepared for.
Mahaha may or may not be alive.
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Complete. Wattys 2021 Shortlister. Standalone sequel (Rocks Can Dance) coming in 2023.
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My sleep was disturbed by a low mumbling. I opened my eyes and looked around. It was still dark out.
I looked up to see if Evander was still awake but what I saw made me scream.
Evander's blue eyes were glowing and fangs were hanging out of his mouth. He seemed to be mumbling something but I couldn't understand what he was saying.
"What the fuck?!" I gasped. Any tiny ounce of sleep I once had was gone as I desperately searched for something to use as a weapon.
I found a broken tree branch and lifted it up.
"Evander?" I called.
His eyes snapped shut and his fangs shrank as I jumped back. He opened his eyes again and looked at me in horror.
"Althea?! What are you doing with that?!" He asked incredulously
He must not know what his body was doing wherever he was. I ignored it.
"What the fuck are you?!"
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Althea Kastellanos runs away from her overbearing family, in hopes of experiencing a life she never had.
Evander Leos just wants to chill and do the right thing. How can he?
Two different walks of life meet and create something... magical.
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I do not own any of the images or videos used in this book. All the characters are from my imagination. This book is fiction. This book contains mature themes. I put warnings at the beginning of every chapter before you read if any explicit content is coming.
‼️ I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO MENTION THAT THIS STORY IS STRICTLY FICTION ‼️
‼️ EVENTS AND CHARACTERS IN THIS STORY ARE ALL FICTIONAL ‼️
⚠️THIS IS ALSO MY WORK. ANYONE CAUGHT COPYING THIS BOOK ANYWHERE ELSE WILL FACE CONSEQUENCES UNDER THE COPYRIGHT LAWS ⚠️
‼️‼️‼️ THIS BOOK IS MARKED 'MATURE' AND CONTAINS SENSITIVE CONTENT. READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED ‼️‼️‼️
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Started: 24th November 2020
Completed: 8th February 2021