Description
She was built to clean. To serve. To fade quietly into the background. But the stars have other plans for her. ***** In the Gaian Empire, there are twelve kinds of clones. Hirayas are the lowest - built to clean, to obey, to fade into the background. Sylvie is a Hiraya. And for 368 years she's done her duty: serving meals, following orders, polishing floors until they gleam. Until now. When she becomes the first of her kind to graduate at the top of the Solstice program - and earns a place on the legendary Solstice18 - Sylvie thinks she's finally carved herself a place worth having. But nothing on the ship is what it seems. The mission: deadly enough to unnerve even the most elite crew. The captain: Jon Gavelan - war hero, Fleet's golden boy, and a man she was never meant to speak to, let alone feel anything for. And Sylvie herself... carrying a secret she doesn't fully understand. A secret she brought back from one of the planets. One that seems to wake when the stars go dark. As the Solstice18 hurtles toward the galaxy's most treacherous route, Sylvie must decide who she's going to be: the quiet servant she was designed to be... or something else entirely.
Praise for A Sea of Tears and Stars
