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Starfall Ranch by California Dawes EPUB
How do you escape toxic family when they control all of your money & connections? Where do you go when you have no one in the world to turn to? Thisbe Vandergoss is the only child of Hans and Jiao Vandergoss, one of the richest families on Earth. At twenty-five, Thisbe has only just begun to settle into the rigid life of corporate privilege that her parents have laid out for her. But, as always, her best isn't good enough and now her parents have scheduled her an operation for the unthinkable. Thisbe is desperate to escape her family's obscene plans, but nowhere on Earth is safe for her. So Thisbe does the only thing she can: she sells off her designer dinosaur leather stilettos, tosses her phone into the Thames, and gets herself a one-way ticket to Sirona, the lush moon world on the opposite side of the galaxy.The only way she can get said ticket is to sign up at the Happy Hearts Matchmaking Service as a mail-order-bride for a lonely lunar colonist. Thisbe engages herself to 76-year-old Sean Kerridan and shuttles off to Sirona, into the arms of her geriatric husband-to-be. Or so she thinks.There’s another S. Kerridan on Sirona: Shiloh. She loves running Starfall Ranch almost as much as she loves being utterly alone and undisturbed by anyone. Shiloh certainly has no patience for rich off-worlders who show up on her doorstep out of the blue.Especially when they show up in the middle of a streak of bad luck: her fruit trees have come down with blight, her farm bots keep mysteriously malfunctioning, and the local mining company is breathing down her neck to parcel out her land so that they can get to the valuable platinum underneath. If her bad luck keeps up, Shiloh will have no choice but to sell.But a major storm rolls in on the heels of the beautiful stranger, cutting off all communications. Thisbe is stuck at Starfall Ranch for the foreseeable future, half a moon away from where she was supposed to end up, with only a grouchy, stressed-out goat-rancher for company. Starfall Ranch is a F/F sci-fi romance that follows Thisbe Vandergoss and Shiloh Kerridan as they work out feelings of self-worth and fear of intimacy in the midst of some life-altering shakeups.
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