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Ten low, Stark Holborn

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Ten low

Stark Holborn

Firefly meets Dune in a breakneck race to escape across an alien moon thriving with aliens and criminals. Ten Low is eking out a living at the universes edge. An ex-medic, ex-con, desperate to escape her memories of the war, she still hasnt learnt that no good deed goes unpunished. Attempting to atone for her sins, she pulls a teenage girl from a crashed lifecraft. But Gabriella Ortiz is no ordinary girl she is a genetically-engineered super soldier and decorated General, part of the army that kept Ten prisoner. Worse, Ten realises the crash was an assassination attempt, and that someone wants Ortiz dead... To get the General off-world, they must cross the moons lawless wastes, face military hit squads, savage bandits, organ sharks and good old-fashioned treachery. But as they race to safety, something else waits in the darkness. Something ancient and patient. Something that knows exactly who she is, and what she is really running from

10 low