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SCI-FI FANTASY & HORROR WRITER, COFFEE ADDICT
Kristy Gardner is a SFF & horror writer who crafts complex, queer characters who adventure through space, time, and emotional maelstroms.
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THE STARS IN THEIR EYES
The Broken Stars, book 1
The stakes were clear after The Change. Survive together, or die.
Calay and Tess’s love has kept them alive four years after the aliens decimated Earth. But when Calay finds herself fighting for her life and Tess missing, she hears death knocking. She only has one choice: she must find Tess.
Reluctantly, Calay braves the new nightmares of a ravaged Pacific Northwest, alone. Thrust into the darkness, she is haunted by horrors beyond her imagination.
As the lines between good and evil blur, Calay’s desperation threatens to spill what’s left of her humanity. She’s pulled deep into the madness of a world that has become kill or be killed when she realizes she must deny her feral instincts to resist becoming a monster herself. That means confronting her demons as she stares down the barrel of a terrifying truth: she may actually be forever alone. Time is running out and she knows it. Her only hope is to become who she is truly meant to be and unify with the love of her life once and for all. But, at what cost?
To survive, Calay must choose between the unthinkable: Give up, or give ‘em hell.
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As a queer woman who has wrangled questions of belonging, Kristy crafts complex (usually gay) female characters who adventure through space, time, and emotional maelstroms questioning what identity – and home – really mean.
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About Kristy
When Kristy’s not jet-setting words on her laptop, she’s chasing stars, mountain adventures, belly laughs, coffee, big dog cuddles, and planning her next trip to SE Asia. That is, until she can get to outer space.
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