StarBound Series #1
Ten worlds. One crew. A universe of trouble.
What if the key to saving the galaxy was hidden in a junkyard — and the only person who could use it was a thirteen-year-old girl with a wrench and a stubborn heart?
StarBound is a five-book middle-grade science fiction adventure series set in the Scattered Reach — a sprawling frontier of colonized star systems connected by ancient faster-than-light corridors that are slowly falling apart. When scrappy young inventor Zara Chen unearths a glowing alien artifact in her family’s scrap yard, she is launched on a galaxy-spanning quest to solve a puzzle left behind by the Wayfarers, a mysterious civilization that vanished over a thousand years ago. Armed with a battered starship called The Drifter, a patchwork drone named Pip, and a crew of unlikely friends from across the galaxy, Zara must race to uncover the truth before a ruthless military empire turns it into a weapon.
Across five books, the series blends breakneck space adventure with genuine emotional depth. Each installment takes readers to breathtaking new worlds — from glittering nebulae and living forests to the silent void at the edge of known space — while deepening the mystery at the series’ heart. As the stakes climb from planetary to galactic, Zara grows from a lonely scrapyard kid into a leader who discovers that the bonds she builds with her crew matter more than any ancient power.
Starbound is a story about friendship forged under impossible pressure, the courage to face hard truths, and the radical idea that connection across difference is worth any risk. It is Treasure Planet meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet for the middle-grade generation — inventive, heartfelt, and impossible to put down.
StarBound Beyond Series #2
Two galaxies. One teenage captain. The bridge between them is breaking.
Three hundred years from now, humanity hops between star systems the way we catch the subway — through shimmering Threadway corridors that fold space like paper. But beyond the known worlds lies the Bridge Between Stars, a passage to a galaxy no human has ever entered. Until now. Sixteen-year-old Zara Chen, the youngest captain in the fleet, crosses that threshold with a handpicked crew, a sarcastic drone named Pip, and a first-contact speech she’s rehearsed forty-seven times. What she finds on the other side will make every version of that speech useless.
The Wayfarer Galaxy isn’t empty — it’s shattered. Seven hundred years of isolation have splintered its civilizations into rival factions, and Zara’s arrival is the spark that could unite them or tear them apart for good. Across five books, Zara and her crew will decode warnings written into alien DNA, navigate the mind-bending horrors of warped space-time, unmask a saboteur hiding in plain sight, and attempt something no one in either galaxy has ever dared: building trust between two civilizations that have every reason to walk away. The Bridge is failing. The clock is ticking. And the only way forward demands a kind of courage no training manual covers.
Starbound: Beyond the Bridge is an epic science-fiction adventure about the terrifying, beautiful, world-changing act of choosing connection over fear — even when the universe is literally falling apart around you.
