Rhys was curious, why did a small, Hyperion girl like me care about owing Jack a debt? Why did she want to help him find a vault? Fiona, a new found friend on Pandora, wondered the same thing. Even if they don't trust me, they definitely want to know my story. The story of how I know everything about Handsome Jack. And of course, how I fell in love with his stupid, handsome face.

On Christmas Eve, around 1812, Pip, an orphan who is about six years old, encounters an escaped convict in the village churchyard while visiting the graves of his mother, father, and siblings. The convict scares Pip into stealing food and a file to grind away his shackles, from the home he shares with his abusive older sister and her kind, passive husband Joe Gargery, a blacksmith. The next day, soldiers recapture the convict while he is engaged in a fight with another convict; the two are returned to the prison ships from which they escaped...

"You will give into me," his masked figure says in its electronic tone. The increasing pressure I feel in my skull is a direct result of the power he is wielding with his hand. I grit my teeth, unable to move my jaw enough to speak. The glare in my eyes says what my mouth can't. ✶ After standing up to the one no one else would, Lyra Elson is taken hostage by the first order under the suspicions that she is with The Resistance. Once back on Star Killer Base, she is tested to her limits by one she will gravitate towards without even realizing it.