The Empyrean is the only home 15-year-old Waverly has ever known. The sister space ship, New Horizon, is ahead of the Empyrean and has a dogmatic leader who yearns to populate the New Earth first. Part of the first generation to be successfully conceived in deep space, Waverly and her boyfriend,Kieran, will be pioneers of a New Earth. 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. 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. Suddenly, Waverly's dreams are interrupted by an attack of the New Horizon. The New Horizon's leaders are desperate to populate the new planet first, and will do anything to get what they need: young girls. The girls are taken onto the New Horizon and Kieran and Waverly are separated They each find themselves at the helm of dangerous missions, where every move has potentially devastating consequences, and decisions of the heart may lead to disaster. This is a riveting book with twists at every turn and no one to trust!
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