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Synopsis
FROM MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER JASPER T. SCOTT They are not from Earth-yet they rule it from the shadows. When Aldric Vale, a lone freelancer for the Interstellar Concord, follows a mysterious signal to an obscure star system, he expects to find a dead outpost-not a thriving world of eight billion people. The inhabitants call it Earth. By rights, the planet should have rejoined the Concord centuries ago. Instead, its existence was buried by a cabal of immortal elites who use Earth as their private paradise, while its people remain oblivious. After a deadly encounter cripples his ship, Aldric is stranded. Trapped on a world that isn't supposed to exist, he must infiltrate the cabal to escape-and expose the truth. Then he meets Lena Hart, a fearless journalist chasing clues she never should have found. Protecting her forces Aldric to make an impossible choice: free an entire world of unwitting slaves... or save the one woman who has made this forbidden planet feel like home.
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Is Starborn appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 16 and up.
Contains moderate space action violence including a ship-crippling encounter, romance between the leads, and themes of planetary-scale manipulation and slavery. Language likely includes moderate profanity.
What to know going in
This book has moderate violence, mild sexual content, and moderate language. Content notes include slavery, deception, and manipulation.
Who'll love this
Teens will enjoy the thrilling mystery of a freelancer discovering Earth's hidden existence and the impossible choice between exposing the truth and protecting the woman he's come to care about.