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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.

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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.)

Cinderella's Spaceship

Rafaela listened to Brendan's message in the same quick mode that she used for most things these days, but she reacted more slowly. His final suggestion of presenting the idea that humans should value their time differently with the genetic modifications that might give a few of them more time, and that would give their children more time... was interesting.

Humanity couldn't, or wouldn't, stop valuing productivity. Could it? She took her next break time to think about that more. 25 PiYears sounded long, but that was only because it was about half of her current lifespan. If she wound up living even half as long as her mother had lived, what was she going to do with her extra centuries?

Rafaela contacted the two oldest humans of her close acquaintance and asked them their plans for the future.

Schmidt told her gruffly, "I already told you that I'll stick with you for as long as you let me."

K: In Health