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2025 Ignyte Award for Outstanding Young Adult Novel (nominee)
2025 Locus Award for Best Young Adult Novel
2025 Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book (nominee)
2024 Andre Norton Award (nominee)
FINALIST FOR THE NEBULA AND LODESTAR AWARDS '' LOCUS AWARD WINNING AUTHOR "MASTERFULLY CRAFTED."Axie Oh, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
* "THRILLING." Booklist, starred review
EVEN GRAVITY COMES AT A PRICE.
In a society where conformity is valued above all else, a teen girl training to become an Imperial pilot is forced to return to her rebel roots to save her world in this adrenaline-fueled sci-fi adventureperfect for fans of Iron Widow and Skyward!
Hwa Young was just ten years old when Imperial forces destroyed her rebel moon home. Now, six years later, she is a citizen of the very empire that made her an orphan.
Desperate to shake off her past, Hwa Young dreams of becoming a lancer pilot, one of an elite group of warriors who fly into battle using the empire’s most advanced techgiant martial robots. When an attack on their boarding school leaves Hwa Young and her classmates stranded on an Imperial space fleet in dire need of pilot candidates, she is quick to volunteer.
But training is nothing like she expected, and secretslike the ominous fate of the fleet’s previous lancer squadare stacking up. And when Hwa Young uncovers a conspiracy that puts their entire world at risk, she’s forced to make a choice between her rebel roots and an empire she’s no longer sure she can trust.
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
* "THRILLING." Booklist, starred review
EVEN GRAVITY COMES AT A PRICE.
In a society where conformity is valued above all else, a teen girl training to become an Imperial pilot is forced to return to her rebel roots to save her world in this adrenaline-fueled sci-fi adventureperfect for fans of Iron Widow and Skyward!
Hwa Young was just ten years old when Imperial forces destroyed her rebel moon home. Now, six years later, she is a citizen of the very empire that made her an orphan.
Desperate to shake off her past, Hwa Young dreams of becoming a lancer pilot, one of an elite group of warriors who fly into battle using the empire’s most advanced techgiant martial robots. When an attack on their boarding school leaves Hwa Young and her classmates stranded on an Imperial space fleet in dire need of pilot candidates, she is quick to volunteer.
But training is nothing like she expected, and secretslike the ominous fate of the fleet’s previous lancer squadare stacking up. And when Hwa Young uncovers a conspiracy that puts their entire world at risk, she’s forced to make a choice between her rebel roots and an empire she’s no longer sure she can trust.
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Praise for this book
"I loved every single page of Lee's masterfully crafted, utterly engrossing space opera. Moonstorm hooked me with its breathtaking action sequences, charismatic cast, and intricately-rendered world." - Axie Oh
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