Once he completes his biggest job yet-bringing wanted celebrity Rubin Rima to a strange planet called Earth-he’ll be set for life. He just wants to work as a smuggler so he can save enough money to explore the stars. Unless she escapes and finds Wesley, the boy prophesized to help her defeat Ozvios and the Ilori, once and for all. Although Zaira has never been able to harness Indigo’s powers, the Ilori Emperor wants to sacrifice her in Ozvios’s honor. Indigo, whose song created the universe and unified people across galaxies to banish Ozvios, the god of destruction. The two embark on a wild and dangerous road trip with a bag of books and their favorite albums, all the while making a story and a song of their own that just might save them both.From the author of The Sound of Stars and The Kindred comes a YA space opera about a reincarnated god and a grumpy pilot on a mission to save a beloved space DJ and stop an intergalactic war. M0Rr1S has a lot of secrets, but also a potential solution-thousands of miles away. Ellie's-and humanity's-fate rests in the hands of an alien she should fear. They're both breaking the rules for love of art-and Ellie inspires the same feelings in him that music does. The trouble is, he finds himself drawn to human music and in desperate need of more. When he finds Ellie's illegal library, he's duty-bound to deliver her for execution. Born in a lab, M0Rr1S (Morris) was raised to be emotionless. When a book goes missing, Ellie is terrified that the Ilori will track it back to her and kill her. All art, books and creative expression are illegal, but Ellie breaks the rules by keeping a secret library.

Deemed dangerously volatile because of their initial reaction to the invasion, humanity's emotional transgressions are now grounds for execution. Seventeen-year-old Janelle 'Ellie' Baker survives in an Ilori-controlled center in New York City.

Two years ago, a misunderstanding between the leaders of Earth and the invading Ilori resulted in the deaths of one-third of the world's population. Can a girl who risks her life for books and an alien who loves forbidden pop music work together to save humanity? This road trip is truly out of this world A beautiful and thrilling read for fans of Marie Lu and Veronica Roth.

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