Angol
FREE AND CLEAR
The Bloom Cycle · Book Two
The starship Nobody's was built to frighten people. Eli Cortez has spent his last good years turning it into the opposite: a place where the discarded come back to themselves - a war-machine that chose mercy, a crew of animals who think and speak and love out loud, and people the galaxy once branded with numbers instead of names.
Eli's heart is failing, and he knows it. Before it stops, he means to try the one thing the galaxy has never put a price on. Somewhere out in the dark, a whole world is held in bondage - forty thousand lives, catalogued and sold. His crew aren't going to fight the people who own it.
They're going to buy it. Free it. And give the method away, so it can never be sold again.
It's a beautiful plan. It will not come clean.
A warm, tender, quietly funny story about found family, about turning numbers back into names, and about the one rule that holds them all together: you don't get to decide whose life is worth more.
