Striving for the stars is a trope-tastic, coming of age space opera, for young adults and the young at heart.

Aristeia has always dreamed of one day leaving the desolate planet she called home. The daughter of a single father recycling centre engineer, she spends her days salvaging in the scrap yards, hoping to save enough credits to fund her future move to a more populated planet.

After uncovering an old flight simulator among the scrap, Aristeia finds herself with a new goal. To become a pilot and claim the stars for her own.

When her estranged mother, an admiral in the United Astrum Federations space fleet, presents her with the opportunity to achieve the one thing she wants most, Aristeia jumps at the chance to take the entrance exams for the fleet's most elite academy. Only if she passes her exams and basic training can she hope to join the pilot training program and reach the stars.

Book one is now out is avalible for purchase from Amazon & Kobo, and will soon be live on applebooks, playbooks, barnes and noble, and scribd. Striving universal store link

I have created a Discord server with a channel dedicated to the Kelras books and each of my wip. So feel free to join if you want to have a chat, see snippets of upcoming chapters or share your thoughts on the series.

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