C. C. Castle is querying ✨

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Author ✍🏻 | School Librarian 📚 | Cookie Enjoyer 🍪 Currently querying THE SOLSTICE CONTINGENCY (~121,000 words, adult space opera) “Humanity’s first contact with an alien civilization was with those who once left us behind.”

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THE SOLSTICE CONTINGENCY, is an adult contemporary space opera, complete at 116,000 words that follows humanity’s first contact with an alien civilization with those who once left us behind. In the 24th century, Earth’s nations have unified under the Alliance of United Nations and humanity has prospered in a Golden Age all thanks to the benevolence of the Primus–humanity’s ancient and powerful spacefaring ancestors. After the First Contact rattled Earth, the far more advanced Primus uplifted humanity as allies, however, when a war fleet breaches human stellar territory, AUN President Lisbeth Wolf is forced to declare war on what she believes to be her ancestors—only to discover a far more dangerous threat. The Primus are not the enemy.
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I hope you had a great weekend! This was a fantastic way for me to start my work week—what an incredible chapter!!! I need you to know it's taking every ounce of professional decorum not to type this email in all caps, because this captures everything we were talking about so perfectly (I'm even more convinced now that this needs to be how the first book ends). I cannot wait for more, and I cannot wait to scream about this book from the rooftops once it's out in the world!!!
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