Life in the outer realm is a lawless, dirty, hard existence, and Solara Brooks is hungry for it. Just out of the orphanage, she needs a fresh start in a place where nobody cares about the engine grease beneath her fingernails or the felony tattoos across her knuckles. She's so desperate to reach the realm that she's willing to indenture herself to Doran Spaulding, the rich and popular quarterback who made her life miserable all through high school, in exchange for passage aboard the spaceliner Zenith.
Note: Superficially, I will say this book has a lot in common with Stitching Snow by R.C. Lewis (which makes it odd that Disney Hyperion would publish both of them). The protagonists are both girls with mechanic skills. Both end up in an accidental kidnapping situation. Both are fugitives fleeing either to or from the fringes of space, which lawless in ways the "main" parts of space or not. However, while I decided to DNF Stitching Snow due to flat characters and poor handling of what was essentially parental abuse, I did enjoy Starflight--which suggests there are also noticeable differences between the two novels.
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