Ryan sets Kieran and Seth apart from standard love-triangle anchors through emphasis on their well-matched flaws. Waverly's initiative and intellect ensure that even as a prisoner she is far from a damsel in distress. While Waverly launches a careful resistance as a captive of Pastor Anne Mather's childless ship the New Horizon, Kieran and Seth butt heads in an escalating contest for leadership over the distressed Empyrean. Waverly's hesitations about golden-boy Kieran-and curiosities about Kieran's broody rival Seth-are tossed to the wayside when an ambush leaves all of them navigating a deadly nebula of lies, schemes and misinformation. Pulse-pounding and addictive, Glow begins Amy Kathleen Ryan's Sky Chasers-the most riveting series since The Hunger Games.When preserving the human species through deep-space colonization, fertility is both currency and curse.Įveryone expects wedding bells for Waverly and Kieran, the eldest of the first generation conceived in space during the Empyrean's multi-decade mission to colonize New Earth. In one pivotal moment, Waverly and Kieran are separated, and find themselves at the helm of dangerous missions, where every move has potentially devastating consequences, and decisions of the heart may lead to disaster. The New Horizon’s leaders are desperate to populate the new planet first, and will do anything to get what they need: young girls. Suddenly, Waverly’s dreams are interrupted by the inconceivable – a violent betrayal by the Empyrean's sister ship, the New Horizon. Still, there’s a part of Waverly that wants more from life than marriage, and she is secretly intrigued by the shy, darkly brilliant Seth. Waverly knows she must marry young in order to have children who can carry on the mission, and Kieran, the handsome captain-to-be, has everything Waverly could want in a husband. Part of the first generation to be successfully conceived in deep space, she and her boyfriend Kieran will be pioneers of New Earth. The Empyrean is the only home 15-year-old Waverly has ever known.

If a violent battle destroyed the only world you’ve ever known, would you be brave enough to save who was left? Would love be strong enough to survive the fight? Either way, there’s no turning back.

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