Restless: An Aurora Rhapsody Short Story: Amaranthe Short Stories, #1

By G. S. Jennsen

Space is vast and untamed, and it holds many secrets. Now two individuals from opposite ends of settled space are on a collision course with the darkest of those secrets, even as the world threatens to explode around them.
-or they will be in about 8 years. Restless is a short story prequel to Starshine: Aurora Rising Bk 1.
Before Alex Solovy was a successful interstellar scout, she was building starships and planning for the day when she would fly one she called her own. Before Caleb Marano was wiping out the terrorist group who murdered his mentor, he was...wiping out terrorist groups who murdered shopkeepers and threatened his friends.

Catch a glimpse of Aurora Rising's heroes while they were still becoming the individuals they will need to be in order to face the galactic threat which, for now, waits silently in the void.

**Includes an excerpt from Starshine: Aurora Rising Book One**

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hypernova Publishing
• Release date: Feb 11, 2019
• ISBN: 9781386653509

G. S. Jennsen

G. S. JENNSEN lives somewhere in the U.S., in a locale that may or may not be where she lived the last time she published a book (she’s a gypsy at heart), with her husband and one or more dogs. She has become an internationally bestselling author since her first novel, Starshine, was published in 2014. She has chosen to continue writing under an independent publishing model to ensure the integrity of her stories and her ability to execute on the vision she has for their telling. While she has been a lawyer, a software engineer and an editor, she’s found the life of a full-time author preferable by several orders of magnitude. When she isn’t writing, she’s gaming or working out or getting lost in the mountains that loom large outside the windows in her home. Or she’s dealing with a flooded basement, or standing in a line at Walmart and wondering who all these people are (because she’s probably new in town). Or sitting on her back porch with a glass of wine, looking up at the stars, trying to figure out what could be up there. * Website: gsjennsen.com. Newsletter: gsjennsen.com/subscribe Twitter: @GSJennsen Facebook: facebook.com/gsjennsen.author * Newsletter: smarturl.it/gsjennsen-subscribe Twitter: @GSJennsen Facebook: facebook.com/gsjennsen.author

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RESTLESS

AN AURORA RHAPSODY SHORT STORY

G. S. JENNSEN

Hypernova Publishing LogoHypernova Publishing Colophon

2015

RESTLESS

Copyright © 2015 by G. S. Jennsen

Cover design by Euderion.

Cover typography by G. S. Jennsen

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Restless / G. S. Jennsen.—1st ed.

AMARANTHE UNIVERSE

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AURORA RHAPSODY

Aurora Rising

STARSHINE

VERTIGO

TRANSCENDENCE

Aurora Renegades

SIDESPACE

DISSONANCE

ABYSM

Aurora Resonant

RELATIVITY

RUBICON

REQUIEM

ASTERION NOIR

EXIN EX MACHINA

OF A DARKER VOID

THE STARS LIKE GODS

RIVEN WORLDS

CONTINUUM

INVERSION

ECHO RIFT

ALL OUR TOMORROWS

CHAOTICA

DUALITY

COSMIC SHORES

MEDUSA FALLING

THE THIEF

THE UNIVERSE WITHIN

SHADOWS & LIGHT

LIMINAL SPACE

SHORT STORIES

Restless I  •  Restless II   •   Apogee   •  Solatium   •  Venatoris   •  Re/Genesis   •  Meridian   •  Fractals   •  Chrysalis   •  Starlight Express   •  Extinguishing the Stars

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Space is vast and untamed, and it holds many secrets. Now two individuals from opposite ends of settled space are on a collision course with the darkest of those secrets, even as the world threatens to explode around them.

…or they will be, in about 8 years. Restless is a short story prequel to Starshine, Book One of the Aurora Rising trilogy.

Before Alex Solovy was a successful interstellar scout, she was building starships and planning for the day when she would fly one she called her own. Before Caleb Marano was wiping out the terrorist group who murdered his mentor, he was…wiping out terrorist groups who murdered shopkeepers and threatened his friends.

Catch a glimpse of Aurora Rising ’s heroes while they were still becoming the individuals they will need to be in order to face the galactic threat which, for now, waits silently in the void.

When faced with its greatest challenge, will humanity rise to triumph or fall to ruin?

Aurora Rising is an epic tale of galaxy-spanning adventure, of the thrill of discovery and the unquenchable desire to reach ever farther into the unknown. It's a tale of humanity at its best and worst, of love and loss, of fear and heroism. It's the story of a woman who sought the stars and found more than anyone imagined possible.

COLONIZED MILKY WAY

Colonized Worlds Map

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

Alexis ‘Alex’ Solovy

Starship pilot, scout and space explorer;

daughter of Miriam and David Solovy.

Faction: Earth Alliance

Caleb Marano

Special Operations intelligence agent,

Senecan Federation Division of Intelligence.

Faction: Senecan Federation

Kennedy Rossi

Ship Designer, IS Design;

friend of Alex Solovy.

Faction: Earth Alliance

Mia Requelme

Businesswoman;

friend of Caleb Marano.

Faction: Independent

Samuel Padova

Special Ops, SF Intelligence;

mentor of Caleb Marano.

Faction: Senecan Federation

Miriam Solovy (Admiral)

EA North American Logistics Director;

mother of Alex Solovy, widow of David Solovy.

Faction: Earth Alliance

RESTLESS

AN AURORA RHAPSODY SHORT STORY

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2314

(EIGHT YEARS BEFORE THE EVENTS OF STARSHINE)

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EARTH

SAN FRANCISCO

I quit.

Alex Solovy rolled the words around in her mind, trying out different inflections and intonations and generally letting her brain grow comfortable with the notion. Not so much the words themselves as what they signified.

Freedom, in all its wondrous and terrifying splendor.

She was on pleasant terms with her boss at Pacifica Aerodynamics—if not necessarily her coworkers—and bore him and the enterprise he operated no particular ill will. The opposite in fact; it was a decent company as companies went, inasmuch as it hadn’t allowed two centuries worth of ship fabrication