Star Wars: Eyes Like Stars

This first ever Star Wars YA romance from New York Times bestselling author Ashley Poston features all-new characters (plus cameos!), a magnetic attraction, a mysterious artifact, and the fearsome First Order.

Ardent Quay has spent her entire life on her family’s tour ship, the Starfarer, finding comfort in the predictable journeys. But everything changes when a planetside trip to find a rare installment of her favorite romance serial puts her on a collision course with a fast-talking Wild Spacer on the run from the First Order.

Sian has black eyes speckled with stars and represents everything Ardent has never experienced: intrigue, danger, uncertainty—and attraction. He convinces her to let him stow away on the Starfarer so he can return a precious artifact to its homeworld, in the kind of adventure she’s only ever read about.

But with the First Order hot on their tail, the danger is all too real. This is a terrible time to take a tour of the galaxy. And an even worse time to fall in love.

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