The War of Immigration threatens to engulf the near-earth stars. The single person who can stop it is Meriel Hope…

… If only she can remember.

“Great Story! Great World Building! … engrossing and entertaining, and a plot full of twists and turns... awesome world building and character arcs…!” ***** Madhavi Ghare (Goodeads)

Murdered parents. A busted spaceship. Tales that terrified the therapists.

That’s what pirates left to twelve-year-old Meriel Hope and the orphans from the LSM Princess. But pirates didn’t exist, and for the space stations, that defined her as crazy.

After ten years of flashbacks, nightmares, and compulsory drugs, Meriel has buried her past and put her broken life back together. But while searching for a mythical sanctuary called Home, she trips alarms that protect the killers… and the biggest secret in human history.

Once the conspirators are alerted, Meriel has only days to untangle the mysteries surrounding her parents’ death or face her own.

What Meriel finds can rescue humanity from slavery, but it makes the orphans targets.

Again.

And this time they will not escape.

“...a pilgrimage with a haunted and haunting female character who combines strength and grace in a way that instantly wins the reader over to her perspective and her values, her every cause.” -- Writer's Digest

“Reminiscent of Ray Bradbury, early Heinlein, or Alan Dean Foster. Characters who are realistic, not perfect...” ***** Norma Mason (Goodreads)