"Star Child: A Trilogy"

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Star Child is a literary science fiction trilogy about the secrets a mother keeps to protect her daughter, and the truth a daughter has to claim for herself. Three novels in one volume. Cassidy Hollis has built a life she can predict. At twenty-eight, she works as a self-employed graphic designer, manages a rare mitochondrial condition with practiced calm, and keeps a small, carefully chosen world: a best friend who refuses to let her be mysterious, a scruffy terrier named Gus, and a mother she has never needed to ask hard questions. Then a routine blood test returns a result no laboratory can explain. Her mitochondrial DNA matches nothing in any known human database. Origin: Unknown. Cass wants an explanation. What she gets is a version of her own history she never suspected, one her mother, Paula, has kept from her for nearly three decades. Through the community Paula has quietly belonged to for years, Cass meets David Morrow, who carries the same unexplained inheritance. Neither of them is entirely human, and their daughter will carry more of it than either of them understands. Eleanor Hollis-Morrow grows up sensing what people feel and what objects remember, and learning that what she knows can never be proven. At twenty-two, she puts that gift to work beside an investigative journalist, building a case against a company that believes it is untouchable, one verifiable fact at a time. Readers who loved the quiet strangeness of Piranesi will find a story that trusts its characters to carry an extraordinary premise with ordinary, human weight. Some inheritances are written in blood. Others have to be earned.