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A Debt to the Stars by Kevin Hincker EPUB



Diana Roark didn't start life as the richest person in human history. But, as luck would have it, she's exploring the world's deepest ocean trench when aliens, called The 27, orbit and make First Contact. When The 27 leave, as suddenly as they came, every human alive has been Augmented except for Diana. Since humanity no longer ages and every material comfort is now dispensed free from alien Obelisks, the world economy stumbles. Industries collapse. Diana alone alone is still fully human. She continues to age, but because she's also the only one who fears the end coming, she continues to invest. Finally, in stabilizing the world economy almost single-handily, she comes to own almost everything. When The 27 reappear thirty years later, intent on following their plans for the Earth at any cost, only Diana now wields money brutally enough fight free of foreclosure and destruction. She's assisted in her battle to save the planet by a gelatinous purple broccoli-a Certified Public Accountant assigned to be Earth's customer service representative. Diana will need more than one alien CPA, though, to confront a galactic economy where only a single rule matters: either buy, or be sold.



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