An Unbreakable World by Ren Hutchings (Starbright August 2025 Exclusive)

If something seems too good to be real, you’ve got to get out of there.

That’s the rule that Page Found has always followed. She’s a petty thief with no memory of her past, scrounging to survive on a backwater outpost – until she’s kidnapped by one of her marks.

Her kidnappers – the cruel, self-serving Zhak and the tough maverick Maelle – plan to pass Page off as a monk from an ancient, isolated planet to help them capture a treasure-filled ship. If Page is willing to play along, they all stand to become richer than they can imagine.

Everyone is keeping secrets, and Maelle finds her loyalties conflicted as she gets closer to their captive. Page can’t remember the last time she counted on anyone. But to navigate this deception, she and Maelle will have to trust each other to survive.
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Our Starbright Exclusive edition is a Royal hardback and features:⁠

• An exclusive redesigned cover (art by @spearmintaii; design by @chattynora)⁠
• Full colour art and foil on the hardback (by @jefflangevinart)⁠
• Digitally printed fore-edge (by @spearmintaii)⁠; block-sprayed top & bottom edge
• Illustrated endpapers (by @krasnetigritsa); different front and back⁠
• Bonus content
• Bound-in author letter
• Hand-signed by the author⁠
• Standalone adult science fiction⁠
• Found family, queer platonic relationships, and sapphic yearning

If you like space opera with tales of vengeance and identity, we think you’ll enjoy this one!

Photos by @bookwormgram