THE OUTER LOOP
Neal Goodman is a guitar prodigy bully magnet from a broken home. His new school claims he’s got mental health issues, but his unrequited crush on his neighbor, Heather, is much more disconcerting. Freshman year ain’t going so hot, but when he’s abducted by a top secret government agency and winds up imprisoned by aliens on Mars, he wonders if Earth life wasn’t so bad after all.
Princess Stella has made the unlikely journey from street urchin orphan up to Kairos Kastle. Now, after the murder of her adopted father, King Jonatin, she’s about to be crowned Queen of Deradune, a small moon of Saturn. It’s up to her to fend off the evil Ophidian invaders intent on seizing control of the Capricorn Gate, a nearby wormhole, for who controls the Gate controls the galaxy. Two stories collide in the stars….