I'm pleased to share the cover for the final installment in the Vagrant Chronicles, Descendants by Janet Post and Gabe Thompson!
The Descendants (The Vagrant Chronicles #3)
Genre: YA Sci-Fi
From the award-winning authors of Vagrant and Mutant comes the long-awaited finish to the Vagrant Chronicles, Descendants!
Book
III begins on Gliese where Shayna, Mai Li and Cain Hollyroad have
taken over the leadership of the new colony. Shayna is worried
because they’ve heard nothing from Declan and Logan. She decides to
contact Earth using the equipment Eddie set up before he left.
Unfortunately, when she succeeds and contacts someone she’s never
heard of with the New LA Vagrants, she gets bad news. War has broken
out in New LA and the Vagrant she’s contacted, a mole person named
Reek running a small, solar-powered computer hacked into the
Company’s com systems, he tells her most of the Vagrants are gone,
hiding and shipped off to mining worlds. Reek doesn’t know Logan or
Declan or any of the group from Gliese, and tells her the Vagrant
space ship was destroyed. When she uses the equipment to piggyback
off the Company’s Interstellar communication waves, they are
alerted and come to find the colony.
Razor Tsang and his
father are at the Gliese spaceport. They have an interview with the
CEO. Razor’s father is the head of the Tong that has been the one
sanctioned smuggling operation affiliated with the Company for
decades. But the CEO, an alien who is a member of the ancestor race,
laughs in their faces, denies them a new contract and give them
twenty-four hours to clear off Gliese. Unfortunately for Razor’s
father Big Lou Tsang, a group from the Smugglers guild meets him at
his ship and kills him. Razor escapes and runs for the hills. He
meets up with Shayna and her group and tells them what
happened.
Cain Hollyroad leads colony members out of their
valley and into the badlands of Gliese where there is no water and
little hope of survival. Some of the colony gets caught by the
Company and sent to the mines. Shayna, Cain, Razor, Mai Li, her
daughter escape and begin a terrible trek into badlands searching for
water. When all appears lost, Cain finds some caverns in a canyon
which lead to an underground chamber with a spring. They need to get
to a spaceport. Shayna is so worried about Logan, he concerns drive
them away from their temporary shelter in the cavern and onward. They
find the newest mining settlement. It has a rudimentary spaceport and
a gigantic interstellar ship on the ground. It’s the ship they
stole off the moon. Raj thinks he might be able to fly it. He has
Helga. Knock reluctantly surrendered her control cube to him when he
fell for Fenfang.
On Earth, Logan, Knock, Eddie and
Fenfang are trying to fight their way, with the aid of the remaining
Vagrants on Earth, to the Denver Spaceport where they hope to steal a
ship to the moon where they can grab an interstellar ship and get
home to Gliese. Logan is devastated by his father’s death. To find
him and then lose him so suddenly was a huge blow.
The
remaining population of Vagrants is wily and motivated to escape
Earth. When they can’t contact Shayna, Logan becomes frantic. He
lost his father and needs to know Shayna is safe and sound. Hounded
by the Company and its new leader, a Company drone, frantic Logan,
turns its eyes to smaller target, the spaceport in New Salt Lake
City.
When Logan tries to contact Shayna again, he is
stunned to discover she is traveling back to Earth on the Far
Horizon. With the Company after them, the Guild discovers they are
hiding close to their secret spaceport and moves in. Logan and his
group hunker down and pray Cain, Shayna and Raj will arrive in time
to save them.
About the Authors
Janet Post
I’m the daughter of a Marine Corps colonel. I lived the military life until I got out of high school. At that point I was a wild child. I got married and moved to Canada where I lived up the Sechelt Inlet, the scene for Spellcast Waters. I lived in a log cabin, with wood heat and a wood cook stove fifteen miles by boat from the nearest town. I’ve moved a lot. Between the military upbringing and just rambling around the country, I’ve moved 40 times.
I lived in Hawaii and worked as a polo groom for fifteen years. I love horses and I paint, and I write. Now I live in the swampland of Florida with too many dogs and my fifteen-year old granddaughter. Life is beautiful. Live in the moment.
Gabe Thompson
My mother and I started writing young adult and action novels together about five years ago. We work well together because we share many of the same interests. I have a degree in journalism and currently teach middle school in Jacksonville, Florida where I live with my wife and twelve-year old son.
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