Local donut shop owner-and starship captain-Lan Tran is on the intergalactic lam from a civilization-destroying phenomenon known as Endplague. Katrina isn’t the only refugee with a troubled past on Shizuka’s date card. Katrina Nguyen, a transgender teen runaway with a broken instrument and a broken psyche, isn’t motivated by the typical incentives (recording contract, concert tour, international renown) that made Shizuka’s previous students such easy marks. She’s already turned over six violin students, each of whom traded their immortal essence for earthly success beyond their wildest ambitions. In Ryka Aoki’s Light From Uncommon Stars, violin teacher Shizuka Satomi finds herself on the horns of a dilemma: As the clock ticks down, she needs to deliver one more soul to the Bad Guy Down Below or else prepare to take the hot seat for all eternity. In the 1700s, he made a deal with Paganini in the 1970s, he went down to Georgia and now the unlikely California city of El Monte offers up the latest additions to his infernal collection. What is it with the devil and violinists? Seems like his thirst for their souls is never slaked.
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