Hummingbird

At sixteen years old, Deacon Barnes had spent his entire life on the dusty moon of Ophelia, on the outskirts of Republic territory. The son of a farmer, Deacon's lazy days are spent dreaming of adventure, of escaping his dreary life and visiting distant stars. That dream becomes reality, but hardly in the way he expected. It comes in the dark of night, in the form of fire. Flames bathe his home, his moon attacked by a powerful and mysterious alien race known only as the Ethereals. He's left for dead, the lone survivor of a brutal massacre. A chance encounter with the entrancing Diera Hawk, notorious smuggler and captain of the Hummingbird, gives Deacon a second chance at life – and the adventure he's always dreamed of. But is Deacon cut out for the life of a rogue? And when Diera turns her focus to chasing rumours of the Ethereals across the galaxy - and beyond - can the crew of the Hummingbird stand against the might of the powerful aliens?

Newly promoted, Sergeant Lucy Lockwood is assigned to the Fool's Ransom - a Republic starship captained by a young man all too familiar to her. The ship's mission is simple - to wipe out the slave trade on the planets outside of Republic control. But things turn out more complicated than they seemed, as the outlaws are only growing stronger and bolder. As the Fool's Ransom investigates the source of that newfound power, they stumble across some startling revelations - dangers the Republic had hoped were still many years away.

Ten years have passed since the Ethereal invasion. The human race is on the brink of extinction, the last remnants of humanity scattered and on the run. Hidden bases and outposts house the last million humans, while humanity's leaders struggle to decide whether to hide away forever or to fight back.

Bestselling author Natalie Lloyd returns with her most personal book to date, a story about a girl, who armed with her trusty, snazzy wheelchair- refuses to let her brittle bone disease stand in the way of adventure. Twelve-year-old homeschooled Olive is tired of being seen as "fragile" just because she has osteogenesis imperfecta (otherwise known as brittle bone disease) so she's thrilled when she finally convinces her parents to let her attend Macklemore Elementary. Olive can't wait to go to a traditional school and make the friends she's always longed for, until a disastrous first day dashes her hopes of ever fitting in. Then Olive hears whispers about a magical, wish-granting hummingbird that supposedly lives near Macklemore. It'll be the solution to all her problems! If she can find the bird and prove herself worthy, the creature will make her most desperate, secret wish come true. When it becomes clear that she can't solve the mystery on her own, Olive teams up with some unlikely allies, who help her learn the truth about the bird. And, on the way, she just might learn that our fragile places lead us to the most wonderful magic of all...