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Stowaway and the Captain
by Rycliff
Language: English
Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction » Space opera
Content Rating: All Ages
Alliyanna has spent her entire life believing that when she turned eighteen, she would finally have the freedom to decide what came next.
She was wrong.
Instead, she discovers that her future was decided years ago. Alliyanna has been promised in marriage to a powerful duke—a cruel, misogynistic man whose previous marriages have ended disastrously for the women unfortunate enough to become his brides. To him, Alliyanna is not a woman with dreams, ambitions, or a will of her own. She is a possession promised to him, and he has no intention of allowing her to escape.
Faced with a marriage that could become a death sentence, Alliyanna makes the only choice she believes she has.
She runs.
Desperate to disappear beyond the duke's reach, Alliyanna secretly boards a departing freighter as a stowaway. Her plan is simple: hide, survive, and get as far away as possible before anyone discovers she is missing.
But simple plans rarely survive first contact with reality.
When Captain Talak and Kahlan discover their unexpected passenger, Alliyanna's escape becomes their problem as well. The duke wants his promised bride returned, and the mercenaries hunting her are willing to cross worlds—and kill anyone standing between them and their target.
Yet the duke's plans soon become the least of their concerns.
After crash-landing on an alien world, Alliyanna, Talak, and Kahlan discover evidence of something they cannot explain. Something ancient. Something terrifying.
Something that does not merely conquer worlds.
It erases them.
Across the darkness between the stars, an unimaginable force is hunting. Where it passes, civilizations do not fall and planets are not left in ruins. Everything disappears, leaving only emptiness behind.
Nothingness.
What began as one young woman's desperate flight from a future chosen for her has placed Alliyanna at the edge of a threat unlike anything her civilization has ever encountered. A danger that does not care about dukes, empires, borders, or the ambitions of those who rule them.
And it is coming.
Alliyanna ran to save herself.
Now, alongside Captain Talak and Kahlan, she may have to help save everyone.
But how do you fight an enemy that leaves nothing behind?