THE GIRL FROM BEYOND

On a future Earth ravaged by solar radiation, seventeen-year-old Matthew is forced by his government to fly across the galaxy in search of a habitable planet for the resettlement of the human race.

He thinks he’s been given a death sentence: 50 years in cryostasis, followed by a quick death on some barren world. But then he lands on Gle’ah, discovering the strange, beautiful creatures who live there, and the girl who leads them. Her name is Kiva. A teen like Matthew, she was chosen to lead her primitive matriarchal village after she had a vision foretelling the arrival of humans on their planet. Kiva views Matthew as a threat, and for good reason—if he tells Earth that Gle’ah is the planet they’ve been looking for, it will mean the end of her people’s way of life. But then Kiva and Matthew discover an emotional connection they never expected—and as they begin to delve into the secrets of Matthew’s mission and the dark truth behind the seeming paradise of Gle’ah, the choices they make will have consequences for both of their worlds. With its epic interstellar romance, an inventive new world where women are in charge, and plenty of action and adventure, debut novelist Andrew DeYoung’s THE GIRL FROM BEYOND will appeal to fans of Beth Revis’s Across the Universe trilogy and Alexandra Duncan’s Salvage. Andrew DeYoung is a writer, editor, and dad living in Saint Paul, Minnesota.