Witch of the Wilds

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(Starbarians Book 1)

Young. Homesick. Pissed. Wayward captain Naya Thierry burned every bridge back home and rushed 70,000 light years to the edge of the galaxy searching for her missing mentor — the hero who fashioned her into an elite starfarer.

It's 2428 and Humanity has only just begun exploring the cosmos. Desperate to bring home Earth's most beloved hero and clear her own name, Naya, her crew and her sentient ship are forced to scour untamed badlands where science is witchcraft and sorcery is law. Out here, barbarian hordes and wizard empires alike see Naya as a trespassing witch, and they want blood.

But when she hacks into the ruins of a civilization as ancient as the galaxy itself, Naya scrambles a puzzle that's been running since the beginning of time. And the puzzlemasters Are. Not. Happy.

Now, demons are coming for her
and they're bringing GODS

Naya Thierry — granddaughter of the Orion Alliance's most revered hero
and beloved celebrity — was forced to abandon her designer future
and come scour the galaxy's edge for her missing mentor.

At 20, Naya finds herself the cadet-aged captain of Earth's
most bleeding-edge ship, trespassing through unexplored wildlands
farther from home than any human has ever been...
or was ever meant to go.

If anything's tailor-made to trigger Naya's tourettes, this is it.

Naya

The edge of the galaxy is the hardcore deep end of space exploration...
a mythic realm drenched in mists and haunted by ætheric things with no name. It's a region prowled by barbarian hordes and sorcerer zealots,
all battling for uncharted turf.

'Welcoming' is not a word used for these parts.

Only the Anachronda, Earth's new cutting-edge vessel, is designed for the
extreme deep. Part luxury gigayacht and part military-grade CIC, she's the one chance Naya has of finding her mentor and getting home, alive or.....

Anachronda in orbit

But things get more complicated when Earth
starts expanding its way out to the rim, right on Naya's heels.

Cal

There's no telling what they think she's done now.
Or are they out here for some other reason?

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Naya Thierry is
a high-functioning
neurodivergent hero

...and Starbarians is
the antidote to bleak dystopias &
'weird for weird's sake'

Starbarians is a cuss-rich environ.