2024/059: Brightly Burning — Alexa Donne

2024/059: Brightly Burning — Alexa Donne

'... the Rochester certainly has a lot of mysteries.' Three cats, one inhuman laugh and a possible saboteur, to name just a few. And now the captain. Young and odd and unpredictable. [22%]

A young-adult science fiction romance, based on Jane Eyre. Here, Stella Ainsley is seventeen, impoverished, and working as a teacher and engineer on the Stalwart, a ship orbiting Earth. It's one of a fleet: Earth is shrouded in ice after a super-volcano eruption, and only a lucky few have escaped. Stella has relatives on another ship, but after she was orphaned by an epidemic she was transferred off to the Stalwart -- a ship she is pretty sure is going to fall apart soon. When she is accepted for the role of governess on the Rochester, she leaps at the chance to escape.

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