The Broken Few

Little Star #2

by Shelly Jarvis

The walls are white, the floor is black, when these guards leave, the man comes back. Nova made it through the City of Trials and gained access to the home of the star-people--her home, now that she's a trial winner. But this place is nothing like what she imagined. Or at least, the little bit she's seen has been little more than cold metal looking down on a world she fiercely misses. To top it off, she lost the one person who was most important to her in the trial. The others she longs to see--Ivy, Krew, hell, even her father--haven't been to visit her the whole time she's been there. Or if they have, they were turned away by the guards and doctors who keep her monitored and, too often, sedated. Little do they know, the Raider inside will not be subdued, no matter how hard they try, and she's ready to find a way out of containment and loose in the new world. She made a promise to a girl she knew for less than a day, whose blood is still sticky on Nova's hands after all these months, and she intends to keep she won't let them win. For Rekka, for Thoa, for all those born to land, she will ruin them.

284 pages, Paperback

First published October 20, 2020

About the author

Shelly Jarvis began working on speculative fiction thanks to a writing assignment in Mrs. Bettijane Burger's eleventh grade English class, but her passion for writing developed at seven years old when she wrote a Halloween tale about a witch and a ghost who became best friends.

An avid science fiction and fantasy reader, she spends a portion of each day dwelling in other worlds.

Shelly's biggest influences are Madeleine L'Engle, JRR Tolkien, Timothy Zahn, George RR Martin, & Patrick Rothfuss.

Shelly enjoys spending time with her wacky spouse, her wonderful nephews, and her rescue pups, Gimli, Butters, Fergus, and Pickles. ​She currently resides near Charleston, West Virginia, in the wild and wonderful mountains that have her heart.