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The Stars In Their Eyes
The Broken Stars, book 1
The stakes were clear after the change: survive together, or die.
Calay and Tess’s love has kept them alive four years after the aliens decimated Earth. But when Calay finds herself fighting for her life and Tess missing, she hears death knocking. She only has one choice: she must find Tess.
Reluctantly, Calay braves the new nightmares of a ravaged Pacific Northwest, alone. Thrust into the darkness, she is haunted by horrors beyond her imagination.
As the lines between good and evil blur, Calay’s desperation threatens to spill what’s left of her humanity. She’s pulled deep into the madness of a world that has become kill or be killed when she realizes she must deny her feral instincts to resist becoming a monster herself. That means confronting her demons as she stares down the barrel of a terrifying truth: she may actually be forever alone. Time is running out and she knows it. Her only hope is to become who she is truly meant to be and unify with the love of her life once and for all. But, at what cost?
To survive, Calay must choose between the unthinkable… Give up, or give ‘em hell.
Rave Reviews
An inescapable, harrowing, and beautiful tale. This book gripped me from the first page. The Stars In Their Eyes is chilling, thrilling, and full of emotional depth that will leave you on the edge of your seat, questioning your own reality.
–Madison Lawson, Author of The Registration
Visceral, creepy, and disturbing. I had to put Kristy Gardner’s novel down and go for a walk, but her images followed me out of the sunshine and into the grocery store. Dark horror fans will love this startling debut.
– Chana Porter, Author of The Seep
The Stars in Their Eyes first begins as a dystopian lost love story. But just when you think you know where it’s going, this novel slides right out of your grip and delivers a string of surprises—one after another. At once exhilarating and philosophical, this debut dark sci-fi is a tour de force of twists and turns.
– Sarina Dahlan, Author of Reset
A propulsive journey of resilience and survival, The Stars in Their Eyes charts a juicily twisted path through what it means to be human, what it means to be alien, and, above all, when our world is lost, what it means to find home in each other.
– Ann Fraistat, Author of What We Harvest
A gripping tale of survival. Gardner’s characters are raw and visceral, their journeys delivering one emotional gut punch after another as they fight for their lives and the lives of those they love. Combining sci-fi, horror and romance, The Stars in their Eyes shows us the dark, violent side of humanity, but also the promise—however out of reach it may seem—of something brighter.
– N.C. Scrimgeour, Author of The Waystations Series
A pacy, visceral and action-packed romp through a vividly depicted broken future. Readers will be with tough-as-nails main character Calay every step of the way on her desperate search for love and truth. Resident Evil meets War of the Worlds in this compelling debut.
– Kate Murray, Author of We Who Hunt the Hollow
Calay’s journey is both heartbreaking and heartwarming. This book has all the great chaos and all the feels. It’s sci-fi and adventure and romance and a must-read!
– Kelly Harper, Author of Marked for Grace
You can count on Kristy to deliver blinding twists that make you want to read it all over again. Violent and heart-throbbing, this is not an apocalypse adventure you want to miss!
– Heather Chambers, Author of Earth Sucks