Piperka

When she’s adopted by her wealthy and famous aunt, Ajupris Lerazmine, a jewelry magnate, it seems like everything will change. She even makes her first real friend while accompanying her aunt to a small moon on a mineral-rights deal.

But both Chandra and her aunt are hiding something. And it seems their destiny is inextricably linked to the hostile, unknowable kreebans— an alien race whose radio transmissions have never been understood by humankind— and the mysterious mineral, chronotite, whose fantastic qualities resemble magic more than they do science.