Song of Scarabaeus
Sara Creasy · Scarabaeus #1
A terraforming prodigy is leashed to a slave bodyguard — if she strays, he dies.
Description
Head for the stars! A gripping sci-fi adventure with a dash of romance. Edie has only one mission. Trained since childhood by the all-powerful Crib empire, she terraforms alien worlds while her masters bleed the outlawed Fringe populations dry.When renegade mercenaries kidnap Edie, she's not entirely sure it's a bad thing... until they leash her to a bodyguard, Finn—a former freedom fighter-turned-slave, beaten down but never broken.If Edie strays from Finn's side, he dies instantly. If she doesn't cooperate, the mercs will kill them both.But Edie's abilities far surpass anything her enemies imagine. And now, with Finn as her only ally and the merciless Crib closing in, she'll have to prove it or die on the site of her only failure... a terrifying jungle world called Scarabaeus.
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