β Scribed by Danielle Banas
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
They're only good at being bad.
Cora Saros is just trying her best to join the family business of theft and intergalactic smuggling. Unfortunately, she's a total disaster.
After landing herself in prison following an attempted heist gone very wrong, she strikes a bargain with the prison warden: He'll expunge her record if she brings back a long-lost treasure rumored to grant immortality.
Cora is skeptical, but with no other way out of prison (and back in her family's good graces), she has no choice but to assemble a crew from her collection of misfit cellmatesβa disgraced warrior from an alien planet; a cocky pirate who claims to have the largest ship in the galaxy; and a glitch-prone robot with a penchant for bakingβand take off after the fabled prize.
But the ragtag group soon discovers that not only is the too-good-to-be-true treasureveryreal, but they're also not the only crew on the hunt for it. And it's definitely a prize worth killing for.
Whip-smart and utterly charming, this irreverent sci-fi adventure is perfect for fans ofGuardians of the Galaxy, The Lunar Chronicles, andFirefly.
Young Adult Science Fiction
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