Can love truly change the world?

Our March book is The Kindred by Alechia Dow!

Joy Abara knows her place. A commoner from the lowly planet Hali, she lives a simple life--apart from the notoriety that being Kindred to the nobility's most infamous playboy brings.

Duke Felix Hamdi has a plan. He will exasperate his noble family to the point that they agree to let him choose his own future and finally meet his Kindred face-to-face.

When the royal family is assassinated, putting Felix next in line for the throne...and accused of the murders, he must leap into action to save himself and Joy. Meeting in person as they steal a spacecraft and flee amid chaos might not be ideal...and neither is crash-landing on the strange backward planet called Earth. But hiding might just be the perfect way to discover the true strength of the Kindred bond and expose a scanda—and a love—that may decide the future of a galaxy.

Alechia Dow is a pastry chef, librarian, and an award-winning author of seven acclaimed scifi, fantasy, and mysterious young adult and middle grade stories. When she's not writing, she's either baking, reading, or having adventures with her partner and daughter in Germany

Fat Forward Book Club will meet Friday, March 20 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT to discuss The Kindred in the community Discord!

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