Mary Ann's Maiden Voyage

(Starship Lucy Book 4)

by T. M. Julien

$4.99

A starship's first voyage should be an adventure. The Mary Ann's becomes a war for the future of an entire species. The Mary Ann is a Sentient-class starship on her maiden voyage, commanded by Captain Thomas Sean O'Malley and his wife, First Officer Nicole. Cheerful, curious, and modeled after an old Earth television character, Mary Ann is more than a ship's computer. She is alive. Her mission seems simple: chart a forgotten sector on the fringes of the ancient Polovian Empire. Then the universe tears sideways. Caught in a broken Polovian machine and drawn into a centuries-old conflict, the Mary Ann's crew discovers a hidden vault containing millions of sleeping Polovians—and the pure genome of a civilization thought lost forever. But the vault is also being hunted by the Purists, a fanatical faction determined to exterminate the New Polovians as genetic abominations. Wounded and pursued by a fleet that will stop at nothing to destroy them, the Mary Ann and her crew are forced into an alliance with pirates, confront the ancient World-Shaper Balivagar, uncover the horrifying truth behind the Purists' origins, and race toward the Genesis Cradle—the ultimate repository of the Polovian legacy. Along the way, Mary Ann must face the most terrifying question of all: If she was created to serve a purpose, does she have the right to choose her own? As ancient machines awaken and civilizations collide, the crew discovers that the greatest threat isn't an enemy fleet. It's a legacy of hatred written into the very fabric of a species. And defeating it may require the one thing no machine was ever designed to understand: love. Mary Ann's Maiden Voyage is a standalone Starship Lucy adventure—a sweeping space opera of sentient starships, ancient civilizations, genetic secrets, war, sacrifice, and the enduring power of choosing what comes next.

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