





Within Ash and Stardust

Chani Lynn Feener

(The Xenith Trilogy #3)

Published by: Swoon Reads

Publication date: July 16th, 2019

Genres: Science Fiction, Young Adult

Having gone from kidnapped faux princess to the legitimate heir to an intergalactic throne, an impulsive, sarcastic teen must take charge of her own destiny in this epic YA novel.

On Earth, Delaney is a normal teenager who recently graduated high school with a fantastic best friend and a loving boyfriend.

But Delaney isn’t on Earth. She’s on Xenith, a war-torn planet half a galaxy away. Originally mistaken for an alien princess, Delaney has gone from kidnapped imposter to the recognized heir to an alien throne. Oh, and she’s engaged to the prince of an enemy nation whose ruthless father is on the warpath.

Torn between two planets, two fates, and two loves, Delaney is finally ready to choose her own destiny in Within Ash and Stardust, the stunning conclusion to Chani Lynn Feener’s Xenith Trilogy.

Author Bio:

Chani Lynn Feener has wanted to be a writer since the age of ten during fifth grade story time. She majored in Creative Writing at Johnson State College in Vermont, and graduated in 2012. To pay her bills, she has worked many odd jobs, including, but not limited to, telemarketing, order picking in a warehouse, and filling ink cartridges. When she isn’t writing, she’s binging TV shows, drawing, or frequenting zoos/aquariums. Chani is also the author of teen paranormal series, the Underworld Saga, originally written under the penname Tempest C. Avery. She currently resides in Connecticut, but lives on Goodreads.com.





-What inspired you to write this book?

Writing this book was sort of an accident. I love watching Sci-Fi TV shows and movies,

but I don’t read many Sci-Fi books myself. I’ve read a few, of course, but it’s not my main go-to

genre, so I never thought I’d end up writing a Sci-Fi book, or that it’d be my first traditionally

published work. My parents are both big fans of the TV show, Ancient Aliens, and I happened to

walk in on my mom watching an episode one night. I’d seen it before, but for some reason, I

started wondering what would happen if the people who run the show actually encountered an

alien face to face. Originally, the idea was simply a book about a girl who lives in a world where

everyone already knows aliens exist, but she has no personal interest in them. Then she gets

caught up in their world somehow and is forced to acknowledge them, and speed learns

everything she could have already known if she’d only paid attention. That’s where Mariana,

Delaney’s best friend and roommate came in. At first, Mariana, Delaney, and Ruckus were the

only three characters I knew about. When I start a book I like to just sit down and write whatever

comes to mind; I’m not big on overly planning ahead of time. It wasn’t until they were on the

ship heading to Xenith that Trystan’s existence was even mentioned, and from there the whole

concept of the story snowballed. I try to read books written about the topic I’m writing about at

the time, so I ended up reading more Sci-Fi novels while I wrote this, which was fun. Doing that

helped keep me in the right mindset and kept me inspired as I wrote. I couldn’t even tell you

what episode of Ancient Aliens I was watching in the beginning, but it’s funny how random

things can suddenly spark inspiration that turns into three full-length novels!



