Rich with humanity, it explores our species’ tendency to damage ourselves, our relationships and Planet Earth. It may be shelved under Sci-Fi but for me, Our Child of Two Worlds is a stirring novel about family and home. It’s evocative and beautiful and works to make you care even more deeply about both the characters and the earth that’s so under threat… This book has the same emotional heart and heft of the first one, but on a much larger (as in galaxies larger) stage, a tricky balancing act pulled off with aplomb. The writing is as wonderful as always, concerned with the small, telling details that show the wider picture so effectively. It’s very tense and I wasn’t crying – honest! (Sue Tingey, author) A world on the brink of destruction and the one small alien boy who is determined to save it. … ramps up readers’ emotions in this heart-warming and thought-provoking story. Heart-warmingly beautiful, Our Child of Two Worlds is not to be missed.” – Barbara Conrey, USA Today Bestselling author of Nowhere Near Goodbye Cory is torn between where he came from and his life on Earth. “A compelling story of love, family, and hope, Stephen Cox skilfully continues the story of Cory, the alien child who became the beloved son of Molly and Gene in Our Child of the Stars. Humanity needs Cory’s people to return to save the Earth – but if they take Molly’s son, it will break her heart. Gene and Molly face the terrifying loss of everything they took for granted. In Our Child of Two Worlds Cory is not longer a secret and a figure from the past brings uncomfortable truths. A childless couple Gene and Molly adopted a strange, wounded child of the stars they call Cory.
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