Leaving Earth

by Cooper Hill

Overview

When Eli, a blue-leather-alien crash-lands on Earth, free-spirited, protected and chaste state-supported artist, K.O. Lightfeather enters into a desperate race to save the injured alien from armed Earth Enforcers and the repressive Mother Company. Trapped aboard Eli's disabled space explorer, Kate meets 'Honey', the sentient on-board control, and a ridiculous rhyming, floating icosahedron, 'number 27', her first-ever friends.
A jerry-rigged defective spin-drive sends the quartet spiraling out of control through hyperspace and dumps them in an uncharted quadrant of space where they encounter a life form calling itself the Entity-I-Undivided.
Forever changed by the Entity as 'new-beings' in the Universe, they join forces with a Keiratus-nation star ship Commander, Srin, only to become pawns in a deadly confrontation with the mysterious FRAN, an icy race of beings threatening the entire Keiratus for unknown reasons. To survive, Kate must call upon all of her strength, imagination and courage--and to answer the real questions deep within her Earth-born soul: What determines that one is Human? Who is one's true family?

Product Details

BN ID:	2940045352079
Publisher:	Cooper Hill
Publication date:	10/15/2013
Series:	The Entity Chronicles , #1
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	339 KB

About the Author

Cooper Hill walked out of the dust in a semi-arid desert seeking a wider Universe beyond the beyond. She has worked in surgery as a scrub tech/circulator, a flower shop, chemical plant, bronze foundry, and for 20+ years was a successful bronze artist and writer of prose, showing and selling in venues and galleries across the greater Southwest.

In mid-careers, Cooper and her husband took a two and a half year sabbatical with Peace Corps, to work in Burundi, East Africa, where she earned the JFK Volunteer of the Year Services Award (as her second-self, A. Pauwels). She has written a non-fiction book, Turtle Tushies in the Land of Banana Beer, A Peace Corps Memoir, about their adventures in teaching fish-farming among a heart-warming people.

Cooper loves the solitude and process of creative writing. She has completed six dystopian future-fiction/sci-fi action-adventure and space opera novels, replete with strong female protagonists, side-kicks, heroines, heroes and an abundant and appropriate number of villains.
She enjoys writing/reading, friends, ballroom dancing, painting, sculpting, travel, kayaking and good movies.

Cooper currently greets the morning sun with a walking meditation and resides on a beautiful tree-covered hill above a quiet valley.