The Orphan Ship

The Orphan Ship by Sterling R. WalkerStranded 225 million kilometers from home on Mars Station, cousins Jake O’Brien and Lorina Murphy are drawn into a fledgling effort to help the hundreds of abandoned street children who call the station home. Jake becomes a medical apprentice in an outreach clinic, while Lorina volunteers at a juvenile shelter. They soon discover that their efforts may be in vain because something much more serious than poverty plagues Mars Station. Also stranded on Mars Station, ship’s captain Danae Shepherd faces the difficult task of hiring replacement crew after an alien virus claims the lives of four in her employ, including her husband. She stumbles upon the same problem that has Jake and Lorina stumped: why are homeless children disappearing without a trace?The Orphan Ship is the first book in a trilogy. The next book, The Lost Sheep, will be released summer 2013. The Orphan ShipSilver Award Winning Book, 2012Children’s Literary Classics

Author Sterling R. Walker has been writing since she was old enough to spell, filling notebooks and -- more recently - laptops, with her stories. She earned a BA in English from North Carolina State University, with an emphasis in Creative Writing. The Orphan Ship is her first published young adult science fiction novel. It's received good reviews and was awarded a 2012 silver medal from Children's Literary Classics.

Walker's exciting sequel to The Orphan Ship, TheLost Sheep, was published in October, 2013. The final book in thetrilogy, The Last Orphan, was published in December, 2014. In February,2016 she released The Orphan Ship Trilogy on Kindle, which combines allthree books into one volume. She is currently working on book one in anew YA SF series.

Sterling R. Walker lives in North Logan,Utah, with her husband of 29 years and four of her six children. Heroldest son is married, and she has one grandson. Her son attends NC StateUniversity, along with her oldest daughter. Sterling is a Christian(Latter-day Saints), listens to metal and alternative rock music, likesto travel internationally, and is addicted to dark chocolate with seasalt. She is also launching an editing business in fall, 2017, calledSterling Edits. (Website under construction.) Visit her blog atSterlingRWalker.blogspot.com.