Where Peace Is Lost by Valerie Valdes (Paperback)

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Fiction – Science Fiction – Space Opera\nRELEASE DATE: 8\/29\/2023(WILL SHIP DIRECTLY FROM OUR SUPPLIER’S WAREHOUSE)\nA Paperback Original\nA brand-new space fantasy novel from master world-builder Valerie Valdes! A refugee with a secret, a dangerous foe, and a road trip that could either save a planet or start a war.\nWhere peace is lost, may we find it.\nFive years ago, Kelana Gardavros lost everything in the war against the Pale empire. Now Kel Garda is just another refugee living on the edge of an isolated star system. No one knows she was once a member of an Order whose military arm was disbanded and scattered across the galaxy. And no one knows that if her enemies found her, they might destroy the entire world to get rid of her.\nWhere peace is broken, may we mend it.\nKels past intrudes in the form of a long-dormant Pale war machine, suddenly reactivated. If the massive automaton isnt stopped, at best it will carve a swath of devastation that displaces thousands of people. At worst, it will kill every sentient creature on the planet.\nWhere we go, may peace follow.\nWhen two strangers offer to deactivate the machine for a price, Kel and a young friend agree to serve as their guides. The journey through swamps infested with predators and bandits is bad enough, but can they survive more nefarious dangers along the way? And will Kels fear of revealing her secrets doom the very people shes trying to protect?\nWhere we fall, may peace rise.\nAUTHOR BIO:\nValerie Valdes’s work has been published inNightmare Magazine, Uncanny Magazine,and the anthologiesShe Walks in Shadows, andTime Travel Short Stories. She is a graduate of the Viable Paradise workshop and lives in Miami, Florida with her husband and children.\n