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Off Planet
- Aunare Chronicles, Book 1
- Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Every day I wake up with fear screaming through every cell of my body, telling me to run, run, run before they find me.
Run before they pull me from my bed and drag me through the streets. Run before they throw me in an execution arena and cheer while I’m tortured until the last scream is ripped from my body.
But every day I shove that fear down and get out of bed. I tell myself they won’t find me today. I’ll be okay. I can make it one more day without being found. I just have to keep going. But it’s a lie. Everything about me is a lie.
I’m not sure how much longer I can keep living a life of lies before I’m caught.
And yet, I have to keep going. I have no other choice. I’ve lasted thirteen years stuck on Earth with my mother, hiding, hunted, knowing that one wrong move could mean our deaths, and I’m not giving up now.
It’s not our fault we’re stuck on the wasteland that is Earth. It’s high crime, high poverty, high pollution, run by a corporate conglomerate - SpaceTech. They seemed like a savior when the world’s economy collapsed but having them in control is even worse than our former fascist government. And just my luck - the only thing that SpaceTech wants more than money is me. Alive. Dead. I don’t think they care as long as I’m found because I’m the half-Earther daughter of the Head of the Aunare military, the biggest alien threat to SpaceTech’s authority.
I haven’t seen my father since I was six.
When everything went violent between SpaceTech and the Aunare, he was off planet. Returning Earth to save us would’ve meant war, and apparently my life wasn’t worth the risk. He abandoned me and my mother here, and so far, we’ve survived. But every day is hard. Whenever things get truly bad, I close my eyes and see myself on a beach, hear a voice calling out my true name—the one I can never say aloud - and I know wherever that is, whoever that is, it’s home.
I have to find my way home somehow. One day, my luck will end. I have to leave Earth and SpaceTech territory before they find me.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that no one is coming to save me. Not the Aunare. Not my father. No one is coming. I’m going to have to find a way to save myself.
From Aileen Erin, the USA Today best-selling author of the Alpha Girl series, comes an epic adventure in space: The Aunare Chronicles!
- Book1: Off Planet
- Book 2: Off Balance
- Book 3: In Command (an eBook Novella)
- Book 4: On Mission
- Book 5: On Destiny
What the critics say
“In this bleak world, one spark of hope soon turns into an inferno. And just like a fireball, once this story is ignited, it just doesn’t stop.” (Maria V. Snyder, New York Times best-selling author of Navigating the Stars.)
“Suspenseful sci-fi with complex world-building and a tough-as-nails heroine you’ll want to root for!” (Elizabeth Briggs, New York Times best-selling author of Future Shock)
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- Caleb
- 2023-02-27
a challenging story of opposition and opertunity
It's a very challenging story of the outsider and their need to hid and adapt to a quickly changing environmental pressures. There is a lot of opportunity for the series to progress into a complex story filled with a wide range of themes like action, training, culture, politics, military, and revenge.
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- Benjamin McRae
- 2019-08-09
cringy and painful
"he was so beautiful" main character said that about pretty much all the boys around her, then the author decided to torture her for the entire book, from sexual assaults, having the main character blame herself for it, and then have her sent to a prison work camp to be tortured in her new work assignment, then healed which also tortured her, over and over and over again, then even escaping caused the poor girl immense pain. The entire book is the main character either talking about boys, or screaming in pain because of torture or healing. I listened all the way through because OCD, but gosh it was near anxiety inducing and brought me to tears a couple times because it was so painful to listen to.
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