***Earth died long ago... ***

Humanity spread to every habitable planet within reach. Evolving independently, each new race governed itself until the Ministry was formed to rule them all.

Raelon has come to Tokino for blood.

After his devastating loss at the battle of Hathor, Raelon has been banished from his tribe. The price of his return is the head of the commander who defeated him: Leuka Falkener.

Bleeding from his war wounds, Raelon only survives with help from an unlikely and unwanted ally.

But Liberty Rhode is no ordinary child.

Brought together by their common enemy—the Ministry—Raelon and Libby form a bond, one that threatens his mission and might change the very core of his being.

Leuka knows she’s being lied to.

Stationed at the Tokino capital to quell rumblings of rebellion, she finds herself acting as the new face of the Ministry. But is she being manipulated? And is she in more danger from the Shadowman assassin sent to kill her, or the government she’s pledged her life to serve?