Glory Alley and the Star Riders (The Glory Alley Series)
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Authors: C.DEANNA VERHOFF
Book One of the Glory Alley Series
Glory Alley
and the Star Riders
By: C. Deanna Verhoff
Glory Alley and the Star Riders
©
Copyright 2012 C. Deanna Verhoff
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Glory Alley’s Cosmic Dilemma
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1. The main category of the book —Fantasy. 2. Another subject category—Science Fiction. 3. More categories — Christian, Family Drama, Young Adult, Adventure.
Cover Art © C. Deanna Verhoff
SPECIAL THANKS
to
my editor, Frankie Sutton
—
for
her
sage advice;
T
o Emily Parish—
for
her
attention to detail
. T
o the founder of Litopia and its members—
they
have taught me so much
.
T
o
Matthew Cohn, John Hudspith, and Rebekah Moser—
their
camaraderie kept me going
. T
o
my children
—
my
joy and inspiration
.
T
o Ginny Eltzroth—
her
continued
support
has been
an important source of encouragement
.
T
o my family and friends—
they have been there for me
through t
hick and thin
; and to Jesus Christ, my light and my rock
.
In loving memory of Mom and Dad
.
GLORY ALLEY
AND THE STAR RIDERS
Tullah and Earth were different, yet very much alike in appearance and human development. Their inhabitants knew similar hardships, hopes and dreams. Separated by space and time, the planetary sisters never met, yet marched to the beat of a single universal drummer toward the same inevitable end, until one fateful morning a girl with a
stone fetish
set Tullah on a strange new course.
Somewhere on Tullah
...
Glory Alley and her best friend Clash, a freckly
faced
boy she’d known since pre-school,
huddled over
a
blue
handheld data device called a Sliver.
A
map of Queen’s Mesa
filled the screen.
She
studied it carefully,
barely notic
ing
the roar of the bus engine under her feet,
or
the rows of winter wheat flickering past the window,
and
the girls a few seat
s
back
laughing
at her
ratty sweater
.
Planning tomorrow’s secret
spelunking expedition
was too important for
petty
distraction
s
.
Clash
tapped
an image of a crudely drawn circle
on the
Sliver’s screen
.
“Here’s where we stopped last t
ime
.
”
Remembering the place made her stomach
do
somersault
s
.
Glory’s
voice dropped to a reverent whisper. “The pool.” She and Clash knew each other so well she didn’t have to say what was on her mind, but expressing the words made it somehow seem real, like it was finally going to happen.
“
If we’re ever gonna find the mother lode, this’ll be the place.
”
Clash’s
real name was
Besnik Gundisalv
. The nickname, Glory theorized, had to do with the way his
white-tipped
hair stood
up
as if
he’d been struck by lightning
.
Glory didn’t have a nickname, but
as an Alley she
was automatically labeled a loser.
All of Cloverdale thought she’d never amount to anything, but they were wrong.
With the help
of Queen’s Mesa, she’d prove
the Alley
name
deserved
respect.