About Nowhere to Hide by Jude Austin
A novel in the award-winning Five Worlds series. Contains strong language.
Kata has finally escaped the torture and illegal experiments of GenTech and the manipulations of his homeworld, Trandellia. Severely traumatized, he only wants one thing: a safe haven where he doesn’t have to be used as a pawn in other people’s games. With the help of Alan Morgan, the only adult figure whom Kata has ever learned to trust, he’s begun to rebuild his life on the planet Akkhen.
Meanwhile, on Trandellia, the hol Diran Nasceri has just received a crazy assignment from Adrianne Demont, the Trandellian planetary ruler: join forces with the holin under Adrianne’s command for a raid on Alan’s base of command, the field hospital on Atthiras. Mobilizing all of the holin – Trandellia’s shadow troops and assassins – for the sake of one target is unheard-of. Mobilizing them against Akkhenian soldiers in an assault is unthinkable. If Diran obeys, he risks everything he’s been working for behind the scenes and the safety of those he cares about. If he betrays Adrianne, he’ll be charged with high treason and face death by torture, but may be able to prevent the first war in centuries.
Kata, desperate to escape his past, reluctantly agrees to an offer from General Barrett: Kata and Alan can hide on the remote space station of Suliko on the pretext of investigating the alleged disappearance of four Akkhenian girls, which will buy High Command the time it needs to negotiate for Kata’s protection. When the fake mission takes a very real turn for the worse, both he and Alan end up sucked into something darker than anyone could have expected.
Billions of kilometers apart, caught up in very different battles, Kata and Diran will unearth the same secret: one that threatens to shatter the safety of all the five worlds and plunge humanity back into chaos.
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Jude Austin (also known by her online handle JudasFm) has been writing online and offline for several years and is the author of the award-winning Five Worlds series. She currently lives in Chiba, Japan, and spends her days gaming, working on her next three or four books and binge-watching far too much Netflix and YouTube than is good for either her or her writing career. She is a staunch supporter of fanfic, never giving up, and squid.
Her preferred genre is sci-fi realism, which translates to character-driven, non-dystopian science fiction without the advanced science, aliens, AI/robots (especially AI/robots!) or epic space battles, finding it far more fun to write about other worlds and cultures. She is intensely optimistic about the future of humanity as a whole, possibly to the point of delusion, and her one regret is that she’ll never be able to visit any of the worlds she creates in person.