There's an alien space station orbiting the Earth, secretly protecting us from invasion. And it's recruiting humans like you to train as fighter pilots. A heart-warming first contact adventure featuring an unlikely heroine, aliens, astronauts, a shape-shifting Welsh dragon, cyborgs, spies, space pirates - and trees in space Since leaving Ethiopia, Hanna Abebe has survived in London by working illegally as a cleaner. But her life unravels after a sexual assault; living rough, she loses the resulting pregnancy and very nearly her life. Salvation arrives and Hanna's rescuers welcome her into an unusual new family: a school for recruits to the Shantivira, the secret space station which protects the Earth. Then Hanna uncovers a traitor in their midst . . . Lucy Cooper is horse riding on Dartmoor when a mysterious shape-shifter appears out of the mist and offers her a place on the Shantivira's fighter pilot training programme. Unnerved, Lucy's instinct is to refuse. But an organisation
