Ghosts & Ashes

By F.T. Lukens

Three months have passed since the events of The Star Host, and Ren is living aboard the Star Stream under the watchful eyes of the Phoenix Corps. Plagued by vivid nightmares that ravage the ship in his sleep, he struggles to prove he isn’t a threat and fears he has traded one captor for another. His relationship with Asher, whose efforts to balance his personal loyalty to Ren with his professional duties to the Corps are failing, fractures.

Adrift without an anchor, Ren must return to his home planet of Erden if he has any chance of reversing his dangerous descent into madness. There, he hopes search for his missing brother and salvage his relationship with Asher. What he finds is knowledge that puts everyone’s allegiance to the test.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Duet Books
• Release date: Mar 9, 2017
• ISBN: 9781945053313

F.T. Lukens

F.T. Lukens is a New York Times bestselling author of YA speculative fiction including the novels Spell Bound, So This Is Ever After, and In Deeper Waters (2022 ALA Rainbow Booklist; Junior Library Guild Selection), as well as other science fiction and fantasy works. Their contemporary fantasy novel The Rules and Regulations for Mediating Myths & Magic was a 2017 Cybils Award finalist in YA Speculative Fiction and won the Bisexual Book Award for Speculative Fiction. F.T. resides in North Carolina with their spouse, three kids, three dogs, and three cats.

Reviews for Ghosts & Ashes

[Chiara S. Cereda · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

The sequel is better than the first book, and it's great. Whereas the first one was mostly an introduction to this alternative world - though there was a story and the start of the main narrative -, in this you can follow the development of the main story, pick up all the loose ends that were left hanging in the first book, and, especially, see the growth of the characters and their relationships. 5 full stars well deserved, and now I'm craving the final book!