Mothership (The Ever-Expanding Universe Book 1)

Teen pregnancy is never easyespecially not when extraterrestrials are involved. The first in a new trilogy. Elvie Nara was doing just fine in the year 2074. She had a great best friend, a dad she adored, and bright future working on the Ares Project on Mars. But then she had to get involved with sweet, gorgeous, dumb-as-a-brick Coleand now shes pregnant. Getting shipped off to the Hanover School for Expecting Teen Mothers was not how Elvie imagined spending her junior year, but she can go with the flow. That is, until a team of hot commandos hijacks the shipand one of them turns out to be Cole. She hasnt seen him since she told him shes pregnant, and now hes bursting into her new home to tell her that her teachers are aliens and want to use her unborn baby to repopulate their species? Nice try, buddy. You could have just called. So fine, finding a way off this ship is priority number one, but first Elvie has to figure out how Cole ended up as a commando, work together with her arch-nemesis, and figure out if she even wants to be a motherassuming they get back to Earth in one piece. About the Author Martin Leicht decided at the age of three that he wanted to spend his life spinning stories, and he went on to receive his MA from the Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU. He lives in New York City, though his heart will always be in Philadelphia. Isla Neal grew up in a small mountain town in Southern California and earned her MFA in Creative Writing for Children and Teens at the New School in in New York City, where she currently lives and works. "If Elvie Nara could do it over again, she probably would not have enrolled at the Hanover School for Expecting Teen Mothers for her junior year of high school. Orbiting Earth in a decommissioned space cruiser loses some of its charm when there's a baby practicing karate on your bladder. Then again, she probably wouldn't have gotten involved with sweet-but-dumb Cole Archer in the first place, since he's the moron who got her pregnant and then bailed. The only thing that could possibly make Elvie's year any worse would be if, say, the ship were attacked by ray gun-toting commandos, and the school's faculty turned out to be totally evil. Oh, and if Cole Archer were one of the commandos. Yeah, that'd be worse." -- Page [4] cover In 2074, while attending the Hanover School for Expecting Teen Mothers aboard an earth-orbiting spaceship, sixteen-year-old Elvie finds herself in the middle of an alien race war and makes a startling discovery about her pregnancy.