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Inheritance of Stardust

By Wiberg, T. Z.

Inheritance of Stardust

By Wiberg, T. Z.

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Inheritance of Stardust follows the transformation of Maya Vance, a sixteen-year-old girl who believes she is an ordinary high school student until a sudden "Awakening" rewrites her biology. It begins in a biology classroom where Maya suffers from sensory overload, hearing the electricity in the lights and the heartbeats of those around her . The situation escalates when she accidentally shatters a glass beaker with a sonic scream and snaps a heavy canvas bag strap with minimal effort .Maya rushes home to find her eyes have turned a bioluminescent violet and her pupils have become vertical . Her parents, David and Elena, reveal the truth: they are actually her guardians who found her in a crash-landed pod in the Mojave Desert sixteen years ago. Maya is the Heir to the Xylanthian Empire, an ancient alien race of energy architects, hidden on Earth to protect her from the Khymera, a predatory species that consumes civilizations .The Awakening attracts the attention of Agent Kade Thorne, a relentless operative for the Bureau of Extrasolar Containment who is secretly a Khymera scout in disguise . After Thorne tracks Maya to her school using her unique energy signature, she is forced to flee . She is aided by Leo Miller, a high school linebacker who witnesses her powers and helps her escape in his rusted Ford F-150 . While navigating the "Ghost Roads"-old mining trails hidden from satellite surveillance-Maya discovers she can manipulate gravity and matter, lifting the heavy truck with a single hand to fix a tire .Maya and Leo race against time to reach "Devil's Drop," a canyon in Nevada where a temporal window will allow the Xylanthian flagship, the Star-Weaver, to extract her . Upon arrival, Maya summons the ship using a beam of gravitational force. She meets High-Command Thal'or, a giant obsidian-armored warlord, who intends to evacuate her immediately. However, Thorne ambushes them, trapping the ship in a gravity net and holding Maya's parents hostage on the canyon rim.Refusing to leave her family, Maya takes command. She uses her powers to crush Thorne's robotic Interceptors and save her father from a fatal fall. The conflict escalates when a massive Khymera Dreadnought, The Shadow of the Apex, arrives to consume the planet. Realizing she is the beacon drawing the enemy to Earth, Maya boards the Star-Weaver, merges her consciousness with the ship's core, and engages in a high-speed atmospheric dogfight. She destroys the Dreadnought by teleporting a photon torpedo directly into its engine room .In the aftermath, Maya realizes she can no longer stay on Earth without endangering it. She heals her father with alien technology and sends her parents and Leo back home. Fully embracing her role as the Apex and Queen, Maya takes command of the Xylanthian Armada to lead the war against the Khymera far away from Earth, promising Leo she will return when the sky burns violet.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
258
Release Date:
2025-12-04
Publication Date:
2025-12-04
Publisher:
T.Z. Wiberg
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
9199105799
ISBN13:
9789199105796
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
330 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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