Genevieve O’Riordan is the only news blogger living in humanity’s most remote and dangerous space settlement populated by criminals, refugees, and obsessive online gamers. She’s determined to find a story that will put her at the top of Interstellar News Corps and expose Asteria Colony as an oppressive, corporate-controlled dumping grounds for the unwanted riff-raff of Earth. But then she meets Duin.
How far would you go to help another?
Armed with only audacity, a translator, and a stolen spacecraft, Duin is an alien freedom-fighter desperate for humanity’s aid. Mysterious invaders kidnapped his family, destroyed his village, and are stealing every drop of freshwater they can find. Asteria Colony is as close as he can get to Earth, but with Genny’s help the Stellarnet will get him even closer.
What happens when you fall in love with someone trying to save the world, and that world isn’t your own?
Their relationship begins with a blog post and becomes a dangerous web of politics, prejudice and passion as Genny and Duin struggle to survive not only a war but the darker side of humanity in STELLARNET REBEL, a cyberpunk romantic thriller by J.L. Hilton, the first book in the Stellarnet Series published by Carina Press.
What would you do if you had to choose between love and freedom?
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“Excellent world-building, both of the future human colony of Asteria and the alien Glin. Engaging characters and plot.”– Nicole Luiken, author of Gate to Kandrith
“Stellarnet Rebel was an amazingly unique book with some deep themes and a great love story to boot… I really loved the story, the romance, and courage of its characters.” — Fiendishly Bookish
“I’m really impressed. Stellarnet Rebel is a fictional galactic adventure laced with reality that makes one question how we’d behave in an interspecies environment without the comforts of mother Earth.” – Michael D’Ambrosio, author of Night Creeps, the Fractured Time Trilogy and Space Frontiers Series
“…(E)xtremely hard to put down and was full of twists and turns… I found myself caring about what happened to the characters next and feeling what they were feeling when they were feeling it.” — Everybookhasasoul
“Stellarnet Rebel highlights what a blogger can accomplish when she takes on injustice… I was immediately drawn into the story.” — Mixed Book Bag
“I love this world and the Glin, will definitely read the next one…” – Book Travels
“(R)eally good science fiction romance… Speaking of book 2, Stellarnet Rebel is the start of a series. I’m looking forward to it!” – Reading Reality
“I really felt as I was narrating this novel that it would make an excellent film because the characters are strong, the plot spins along, and it’s a very visual world.” – Gayle Hendrix, audio book narrator
“(A) smart, vivid and perfect imagining of space colonization and first contact with new species… I absolutely loved how easily I was swept into the world of Stellarnet Rebel, and how believable J.L.’s version of the future felt.” – Alison Janssen, Freelance Acquisitions/Developmental Editor
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