Cover of the book "Lily Starling and the Voyage of the Salamander" by Christian Hurst, featuring a spaceship flying over a landscape with a female silhouette in the foreground, and a gold "IP Gold" award badge.

BOOK 1

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Start your journey here, with book one of the Lily Starling Series.

Lily Starling and the Voyage of the Salamander is a gripping sci-fi adventure about identity, destiny, and the power of found family in the far reaches of space.

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Book cover titled "Lily Starling and the Storm Riders" by Christian Hurst. Features a silhouette of a woman standing in space with a spaceship, planets, and colorful cosmic background.

BOOK 2

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Lily Starling and the Storm Riders takes Lily to the farthest reaches of known space. She will have to rely on unlikely allies, question everything she's been taught, and face the growing storm within herself.

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BOOK 3

Book cover for "Lily Starling and the Death Machine" by Christian Hurst, featuring a futuristic cityscape with flying vehicles and a girl kneeling in a glowing circular floor while four people lie on the ground around her.
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Lily Starling and the Death Machine is the thrilling new chapter about power, survival, and choosing hope when the universe is off-kilter.

With Fincher-like tension and a deeply human core, this third installment asks what it means to hope when nothing is guaranteed.

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BOOK 4

A hardcover book titled "Lily Starling and the River of Time" by Christian Hurst features a night sky with stars, a large moon, and a silhouette of a girl walking on water with the earth reflected beneath her.
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Lily Starling and the River of Time draws Lily into the fractures of the past, where love, grief, and identity collide across the currents of time. As reality itself begins to unravel, Lily must decide how much she is willing to sacrifice to protect the life she fought so hard to build.

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