The Sage of Saggitarius

There are 300 billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy and many support sentient life.

Zila Aropov Biddey is a multicultural girl who wants to be a diplomat. She finds her love, Manny, and a mentor, the Great Sage, and gets thrust into the middle of the most important battle in the history of life itself. The Great Sage, the remnant of an elder advanced species, assigns the Wisdom of Sage, a faster than light space yacht, and its crew to Zila with the mission to find the root of the Tree of Life, the Last Common Universal Ancestor (LUCA). Zila stumbles across the entity that has destroyed many sentient species and is now making Earth uninhabitable..

That adversary that may be as old as the universe itself. What can young Zila do against such odds? At the very end, are love, cleverness and other human traits enough?