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Adrift

Rei Rosenquist

Publisher: Tangled Sky Press

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Summary

A ship sits moored off the shore of exile. Broken, yes, but still afloat. And when Snow tells Temple to go secure it, the answer must be “yes.” Either that or a brutal, unforgiving death. 
Temple, obviously, says yes. 
But in doing so, Temple unexpectedly finds more than a moored boat. 
Rei Rosenquist writes of a dark dystopian science fiction world where survival is a shot in the dark and hope is hard pressed and hidden, and you will turn the pages, desperate to find it.
Available since: 07/29/2017.

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