Mirari Press Acquires STARVOYD by Andrea Le Riche
She stole a relic to buy her way off a dying rock. Now the captain who gave her passage owns her contract, her loyalty and the chip in her arm.
Mirari Press is thrilled to announce the acquisition of STARVOYD by Andrea Le Riche, the first book in a planned six-book space-opera series, scheduled for release in 2027.
On Catharis, a mining planet in the Delta Eridani system, a woman's worth is counted in how many children she has. Alex Vealor has made herself worth something else: she works the deepest seams in the mines, hidden inside a suit two sizes too big, cutting Voydsilver out of the rock.
Then, at the bottom of a fissure, she finds a shard of something that should not exist. When she touches it, she sees a star die.
So when a warship lands on Catharis and its captain comes looking for the shard, Alex has the only bargaining chip she will ever hold. She tells Captain Azaren she has swallowed it. It is the start of a very bad working relationship, and of a trade that buys her a berth on his ship.
"Andrea writes people you would follow into black hole without a second thought," said Marius du Plessis, Publisher at Mirari Press. "Alex is small in a universe built for bigger people, and she is so funny about it and so angry about it that I was on her side from the first page. Then the crew of that ship got hold of me, and I stopped taking notes and just read. Underneath the banter and the slow-burn tension there is a genuinely big idea about what (and who) humanity chooses to save, and who it leaves behind. I can't wait to take this journey with our readers."
About the author
Andrea Le Riche writes speculative fiction, literary fantasy and dark romance, and her work is known for immersive worlds, emotional intensity and characters who stay with readers long after the final page. She is the founder of The Bookish Babes Club, one of South Africa's largest book-club communities, where readers and writers meet online and in person, and she has long championed emerging voices and inclusive storytelling. By day she works in marketing communications, leading creative campaigns across digital and live platforms. Her story "XIII – DEATH" appears in Major Arcana, Mirari's tarot anthology, out on 31 October 2026.
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