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Street Candles
Street Candles
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A Spacer's Rules For Success:

1.) Never be desperate
2.) Never do more than your job description
3.) Never, ever go down the well

Ejoq needs work. The tramp starship GRIZZELDA needs a gunner. But what starts as a last-minute personnel replacement soon turns into something far more, with a non-functional duty station, his predecessor's emotional fallout, and a deeply buried secret that will change the course of nations.

Through a dark odyssey across a violent, frozen world, and a haze of lies and shadowy clues, Ejoq will face frenzied zealots, frightened elitists, and dangerous mercenaries on an unknown mission.

Revolution, intrigue, and battles among the stars. Better take a DEEP breath...

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Release dateOct 28, 2015
ISBN9781310927133
Street Candles
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David Collins-Rivera

David Collins-Rivera makes his home in the high desert of Arizona.

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