Adrift

ISBN-13: 9781533040305 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 270 str.

Nicole Krizek

Opis

Karincin is a Scout: a member of an elite team entrusted with exploring the galaxy for dangers to their homeworld. During their long missions, the Scouts are alone, and use stasis chambers to bypass empty periods of time between star systems. His mission is largely uneventful, until he's attacked by an unknown enemy. With his ship adrift in space, he has no choice but to accept help from a race of aliens called the Arathians. He must trust them in the hopes of returning home, but can he depend upon them when his entire reality begins to unravel? Before leaving his homeworld of Siril, Karincin's life had been an endless cycle of familial expectations. Across the planet, societal rifts are widening, as members of the upper class entrust their futures to the Assembly for Eugenics: a council whose sole purpose is to match couples based on their genetic compatibility. Karincin was raised to have complete faith in the Assembly's methods, but when he's Paired with Aevum, a woman who has no respect for the practice, he's forced to admit that perhaps the Assembly chose wrong. Aevum never thought she'd be summoned to be Paired by the Assembly. Instead of outright refusing, her curiosity gets the better of her, but she's shocked that the man sitting across from her isn't like anything she imagined. He's arrogant, rude, and dismissive of her opinions; then why does she give him a second chance? And why can't she get him off of her mind?