Solatium: An Aurora Rhapsody Short Story: Amaranthe Short Stories, #2

By G. S. Jennsen

Morality could not be spawned by tweaking a few genes or shutting off a few neurons. Though humanity conquered the very stars, it remained unable to conquer the darkness within.
In the dark, seedy underbelly of Pandora--a lawless colony on the best of days--a young woman who's lost everything but her soul fights to reclaim her life from a violent, sadistic criminal despot. But when she's given a chance for freedom, she realizes escape is not enough. First, a just punishment must be exacted for crimes committed.

Set twelve years before STARSHINE: Aurora Rising Book One (Aurora Rhapsody #1), SOLATIUM is Mia Requelme's origin story--and the story of how she and Caleb Marano met. It's a story about criminals and those who punish them, but mostly it's a story about the struggle to keep hold of one's soul in the face of so much darkness.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hypernova Publishing
• Release date: Feb 12, 2019
• ISBN: 9781386022350

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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SOLATIUM

An Aurora Rhapsody Short Story

G. S. Jennsen

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2015

SOLATIUM

Copyright © 2015 by G. S. Jennsen.

Cover Design by Bonus Experiment.

Cover Typography by G. S. Jennsen.

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Solatium was originally published in ‘Crime & Punishment,’ edited by Lucas Bale and Alex Roddie.

Solatium / G. S. Jennsen.—2nd 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

SHORT STORIES

Restless Vol. I  •  Restless Vol. II   •   Apogee  •  Solatium  •  Venatoris

Re/Genesis  •  Meridian  •  Fractals  •  Chrysalis  •  Starlight Express

Learn more at gsjennsen.com/books or visit the Amaranthe Wiki

SOLATIUM

An Aurora Rhapsody Short Story

Morality could not be spawned by tweaking a few genes or shutting off a few neurons. Though humanity conquered the very stars, it remained unable to conquer the darkness within.

In the dark, seedy underbelly of Pandora—a lawless colony on the best of days—a young woman who’s lost everything but her soul fights to reclaim her life from a violent, sadistic criminal despot. But when she’s given a chance for freedom, she realizes escape is not enough. First, a just punishment must be exacted for crimes committed.

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