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A Desperate Search Among The Stars

Dex Varklyn, once engineer, now starship captain, through a spontaneous act of kindness, finds himself embroiled in interplanetary tensions ignited by slave traders. One of the galaxy’s five slave-legal planets has been discovered buying stolen children. But from who? And how can anyone help them? An 8,000 year-old cryptic stone may actually hold the answer. Aided by a former slave girl and a princess, together they must unravel this mystery and rescue hundreds of stolen people from horrible bondage. But those who work in secret will fight with great vengeance to protect their illegal business.

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digital
Format: Universal eBook Format, 391 pages
Publisher: Outskirts Press (Oct 31, 2025)
ISBN10: 1977287417
ISBN13: 9781977287410
Genre: FICTION / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure

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Dan Ketchum lives in a small town in upstate New York. After retiring, he began to seriously pursue his lifelong writing hobby and produced The Raven’s Children. It is his first novel.
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