Saving Emma
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Last published Mon, Sep 14, 2015
Emma was scouted and signed up to the Fleet at 15. At 20, she's about to into space for the first time on a mission to save Earth hundreds of years after 'The Attack'. Emma thinks she's helping to save her home planet but she might just find herself being saved by the very thing she's trying to fight hardest. Tristan will throw a curve ball at Emma forcing her to confront herself and start to challenge the foundations of the very things that she believes in.
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