A Sacrifice of Blood and Stars book

On a distant dwarf planet a young soldier discovers her mortal enemy is her only tie to the world she left behind in a high stakes sci fi romance Two months after her eighteenth birthday scrappy Hikari Skye is ready to leave her ramshackle mobile home on Earth for icy dwarf planet Ceres and the underground bases that house Space Force She s trading her dingy trailer park her baby sister Bea and her best friend Rho for the excitement of the Proxy Wars and the freedom of the galactic front lines where her father once deserted his own platoon And the most appealing part She s leaving behind Draeden Rache the cocky privileged bully who tried to kiss her last year Appealing that is until Drae and Kari are tied together by the Pairing Ceremony as Sympathetics Each week she ll share everything with him and him emotions fears and the sneaking suspicion that something is very very wrong As Kari struggles to survive life in a unit that can only see her as a defector s spawn Drae and Rho work to solve a mystery of their own back at a futuristic UC Berkeley while their professor is hunted down for daring to teach beyond propaganda With the California Federation s proxy war with the Siberian Federation heating up and Raiders creeping closer by the day Kari and Drae s weekly interactions turn into a race against time even as their feelings for each other grow And there s something both Kari s tough drill sergeant and Drae s wealthy father don t want them to know Fourth Wing meets The Expanse in A Sacrifice of Blood and Stars the first book of an enemies to lovers sci fi series for the ages Conjures the magic of romance amid the horrors of a war torn future Fast paced filled with action and alive with love and need Highly recommend Jonathan Maberry New York Times bestselling author of the Sleepers War and NecroTek series A Sacrifice of Blood and Stars A Military AstromanceJennifer Brody Vera Strange pen name is the author of the Disney Chills 7 book series The 13th Continuum trilogy and the Stoker Finalist Spectre Deep 6 prompting Forbes to call Brody a star in the graphic novel world She is the co author of Star Wars Stories of Jedi Sith where she penned the Darth Vader story She s a graduate of Harvard University a film TV producer and writer and a creative writing instructor for the Writing Pad She began her career in Hollywood working for A List directors and movie studios You can find her on Twitter and TikTok JenniferBrody and Instagram and Facebook JenniferBrodyWriter Jennifer Brody Vera Strange pen name is the author of the Disney Chills 7 book series The 13th Continuum trilogy and the Stoker Finalist Spectre Deep 6 prompting Forbes to call Brody a star in the graphic novel world She is the co author of Star Wars Stories of Jedi Sith where she penned the Darth Vader story She s a graduate of Harvard University a film TV producer and writer and a creative writing instructor for the Writing Pad She began her career in Hollywood working for A List directors and movie studios You can find her on Twitter and TikTok JenniferBrody and Instagram and Facebook JenniferBrodyWriter site_link