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Astray

The Adventures of a Xeno-Archaeologist, Book 1

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Astray

By: Jenny Schwartz
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
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About this listen

Nora Devi is a xeno-archaeologist with a complicated past.

She has buried more secrets than she’s dug up. Widowed in the recently ended twelve year war between Capitoline and Palantine, she now makes a living as an independent tagger in border space.

Captain Liam Kimani could be credited with ending the latest royal war. Instead, he’s blamed for it. Dirty commoners aren’t meant to lay their hands on royalty.

He has no regrets.

When Liam and his crew of the battlecruiser RC Genghis Khan are exiled to Capitoline’s border they discover that life in unexplored space can be more dangerous than war, and that their best chance of survival lies with a mysterious, elusive tagger.

The only problem is that Nora’s secrets might destroy the precarious stability of the entire Human Sector.

Astray is a fast-paced, enthralling space opera of lost societies, ancient aliens, rugged warriors and semi-legal pirates.

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I really liked the characters and how the story developed. A bit slow at times.
Will definitely listen to the next book.

Great story

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This is an intelligent, well-written start to the series that makes me want to know what happens next. Great characters and narration.

An interesting listen.

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