We are delighted to be revealing the cover for Shannon K. English’s The Lightyears Between Us!
Releasing on December 2nd 2025, The Lightyears Between Us is now available to preorder on Amazon and Barnes & Noble, plus you can add it to your Goodreads here.
Read on to discover the cover and synopsis, but first here’s what Shannon had to say about the cover!
“The cover for The Lightyears Between Us is something I’d been thinking about for a couple of years, but Annabelle Friedrich-Moe (@avendellart) took all the vague ideas I had and knocked it out the park. She perfectly captured the divide between the characters, the dreamy quality of the story as the characters are sealed away together, and the beauty of the setting in space. It’s hard to combine the clean lines and hard edges of a spaceship with a cosy vibe, but Annabelle managed it. I’m so happy with the way it looks!”
Seventeen-year-old noble Will Arrex and her classmate Paige Tarrant were destined to be bitter rivals. Where Will is ice cold and painfully poised––everything an Arrex should be––Tarrant is a firecracker, unafraid to speak her mind.
Every twenty-five years, students aboard the Eden Space Station are chosen by lottery to pilot the Laikas––a fleet of ships sent on exploratory missions, humanity’s last hope to find a habitable world. As the only daughter of a powerful politician, Will was not supposed to be one of them.
When Will and Tarrant wind up piloting Laika 15 together, their mutual hatred begins to thaw. But all seems lost when they discover the Eden’s darkest secret…Laika 15 was never meant to come home.
Trapped in the vastness of space on an impossible mission, Will and Paige must bridge the lightyears keeping them apart if they want to survive.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Shannon K. English grew up amongst the windy moors of northern England. She is inspired by mythology, fantasy of every stripe, and powerful tales about characters struggling with terrible choices. As an asexual and panromantic author, she tries to tell the representative sci-fi and fantasy stories she loves to read. Her favourite writers include Ursula K. Le Guin, Shannon Hale and Jack London.
