Lily Starling and the Voyage of the Salamander

Book 1 in the Lily Starling Series

by Christian Hurst

A seventeen-year-old girl wakes in a city she does not recognise with no memory and a metal tag engraved with the name Lily Starling. Recruited onto the SFS Salamander, a Union starship at war with the psionic Krythar Ascendancy, she discovers that her parents engineered her DNA as a weapon and that the only people she can trust are the crew who slowly become her found family. The first novel in Christian Hurst's young adult space opera series, winner of three First Place categories at the BookFest 2026 awards.