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Cinderella's Spaceship

Rafaela grew up in the Cinder Sector of the outer belts, an isolated region that her step mother and step sisters can't bear. She's eligible to enter the Prince's race, if she can get her mother's old scout ship repaired in time, but she also needs to discover what her mother really left behind. Prince Brendan needs to catch a bride that he can trust. He was born with Corporate records written into his genes in a Solar System brewing with political strife. He bets his future on a race, but will he find out what this Cinder girl's family is tangled up in? With interstellar travel still confined below the speed of light, the vast majority of humanity now carries the extra pair of chromosomes packed with an inheritance of genetic memories. Those who don't carry the extra genes have been disregarded for centuries. Humanity needs to let go of the past in order to expand their future. Will a young woman, a young man, and a dragon be able to forge a brighter future between two stars? Cover redesigned by Bloom759, face based off Artflow.ai generation. --- On hold because I'm getting the shattered shunt removed finally! (The list of possible complications is a bit scary, but not compared to living with my brain fluid leaking out.)

gusdefrog · Sci-fi
Not enough ratings
227 Chs

P: Built in the Past

Brendan was nearly bursting with impatience, but so exhausted that he knew he needed to stop and sleep again.

"I need a break," he admitted reluctantly.

Brennant eyed him as he stepped back, and commented almost encouragingly, "You've been trying to learn within two days what Adrian has been trying to learn within two weeks, and what took me at least twenty years to work out."

"At the speed they are moving, two days is long enough for them to travel farther than the fastest ship I could build can travel in a week," he pointed out.

"You're the one who hasn't had time," Brennant replied callously.

There was nothing Brendan could say to that. It could even be argued that his brief stint as the acting King of Eks Corp had ruined the company. He had sold off holdings that his predecessors had guarded for centuries, and yielded the proceeds to some of their oldest rivals.