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  • Published: 21 November 2018
  • ISBN: 9780857667502
  • Imprint: Angry Robot
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $29.99

Free Chocolate





Space Opera adventure gets a telenovela makeover in this delectable science fiction debut.

In the far future, chocolate is Earth’s only unique commodity one that everyone else in the galaxy is willing to kill to get their hands, paws and tentacles on
 
Latina culinary arts student, Bo Benitez, becomes a fugitive when she’s caught stealing a cacao pod from one of the heavily-defended plantations that keep chocolate, Earth’s sole valuable export, safe from a hungry galaxy. 
 
Forces array against her including her alien boyfriend and a reptilian cop. But when she escapes onto an unmarked starship things go from bad to worse: it belongs to the race famed throughout the galaxy for eating stowaways! Surrounded by dangerous yet hunky aliens, Bo starts to uncover clues that the threat to Earth may be bigger than she first thought. 

File Under: Science Fiction [ Heiress Apparent | Sticky Fingers | Pod People | The Milky Way ]

  • Published: 21 November 2018
  • ISBN: 9780857667502
  • Imprint: Angry Robot
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $29.99

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Praise for Free Chocolate

"Free Chocolate is quirky, fun, and loaded with sci-fi chocolaty goodness! This book is a calorie-free treat."
- Beth Cato, author of Breath of Earth

"Exhilarating fun in a galaxy muy loca for Earth's most sublime delicacy! Bodacious lives up to her name, and not even certain death can slow her down. Free Chocolate proves that romance, intrigue, space opera, mortal peril, and culinary ambition can be served with a sweet side dish of humor."
- Sue Burke, author of Semiosis

"You had me at laser monkey robots."
- Arianne "Tex" Thompson, author of the Children of the Drought trilogy

"Soap opera drama mixed with sci-fi high stakes, Free Chocolate is a muy thrilling ride!"
- Laura Maisano, author of Cosplayed and Schism

"Earth has a monopoly on chocolate. The aliens will do anything to get a cacao sample, and the planetary government will do anything to stop them. What a premise!"
- Daniel M Benson, author of Groom of the Tyrannosaur Queen

"¡Muy deliciosa! Amber Royer's Free Chocolate is nonstop fun on every page! From strangely delicious sounding cosmic treats to Spanglish-speaking intergalactic diplomats to the relentlessly breathtaking feartastic adventure, this is a unique read and a total page-turner! Not only does Royer introduce the first university-student Mexican sci-fi heroine, with a host of wildly eclectic friends, but she builds a believable universe around them that is a true delight to visit. Can't wait for the next adventure!"
- Eden Unger Bowdich, author of the Young Inventors Guild Series

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