New Release: Junk Rat
On Miller’s World, junk rats don't grow old. They freeze, starve, or bleed out in gutters—and that’s if they're lucky.
Fourteen-year-old Wulan plans to be the exception.
She survives by picking through the ruins of a dead civilization—with a glitchy pre-war drone who’s equal parts guardian angel and smartass.
But surviving is just a slower death. The ruins took her parents. They took her brother. They’ve taken everything.Now every day is a fight just to see her next sunrise.
When a fence cheats her out of her first real score and leaves her with nothing, she joins a crew of kids led by an alien girl—with a reputation as a killer—to hit him back.
The smart play would be to walk away. But as Wulan always says, “She who dares, wins.”
Junk Rat is the prequel novella to my YA Space Opera Doors to the Stars (coming September 2026). For fans of Becky Chambers’s warmth and Paolo Bacigalupi’s grit.
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