Headshot photo of Essa Hansen

by Essa Hansen

Published by Orbit Books

Released on Feb 1st 2022

Book cover of Nophek Gloss, a black space ship

Azura Ghost

Book two of the Graven

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Description

One man and his sentient starship is all that stands between the multiverse and its total destruction in the second book of Essa Hansen’s brilliant, mind-bending space opera trilogy.

Caiden has been on the run for ten years in order to keep his Graven ship out of the hands of his old adversary, Threi. But when a childhood friend he once thought dead reappears to take it, he is lured into a game of hunter and hunted with the one person whose powers rival Threi’s: his sister, Abriss.

Now to have a fighting chance against the most influential siblings in the multiverse, Caiden is left with no choice. He must unlock the Azura’s true potential—which means finally confronting his own mysterious genetic origins.

Check for signed editions (available for shipping) at Copperfield’s Books (Petaluma) and Chaucer’s Books in Santa Barbara.

Representation: asexual spectrum protagonist, autistic protagonist, bisexual protagonist, queernorm world, LGBTQIA+ supporting characters, genderfluid and nonbinary rep, autism and neurodivergence, disability rep

Content Warning: c-PTSD, violence, anxiety, loss

Tags: found family, sentient spaceship, multiverse, multidimensionality, metaphysics, philosophy, spiritual powers, consciousness, grey morality, cyborgs, genetic engineering, LGBTQIA+, disaster siblings

Click for a spoiler-filled synopsis of the events of Nophek Gloss as a memory jog before starting Azura Ghost.

Click for a glossary of the main elements of the novel, including pronunciations.

Reviews

Nophek Gloss’s sequel brings back all of the incredible characters that revolve around a young man coming into his power. An exciting science fiction story that keeps readers guessing the true intentions of everyone. (*Starred Review*)

Library Journal

Kristi Chadwick

Intriguing metaphysical concepts, more fast-paced action, and a climactic revelation regarding Caiden’s mysterious genetic heritage will have fans eager for the next book in the Graven series. (*Starred Review*)

Booklist

Unpredictable and strikingly unique, Azura Ghost is science fiction without any limits to its imagination. Genre-breaking brilliance!

David Dalglish

USA Today Bestselling Author

A blistering crash through bubble universes, seas of the luminous dead, and sleeping alien cities. Liquid-crystal star ships, living machines, reality-cleaving swordplay, and a dynasty whose words command your synapses and cells. Heart-heavy, astonishingly inventive, with language that burns like plasma. A biomechanical sucker punch of a book. The space opera you've been waiting for.

Micah Dean Hicks

Author of Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones

A work of dazzling imagination, lyrically written, and shot through with deep empathy. A triumph in every sense.

Gautam Bhatia

Author of The Wall and The Horizon 

Essa Hansen is one of the most imaginative authors in science fiction today, and in Azura Ghost she delivers a thrill ride of a story.

Michael Mammay

Author of Planetside

Praise

Azura Ghost received a Starred review from Booklist!

Azura Ghost received a Starred review from Library Journal!

A finalist in a wonderful SFF reader community's annual awards. Thank you Oasis for all the love!