[Excerpt; first 4 chapters only] Aliens storm our ship, threatening the lives of the crew. I bow my head and approach the alien commander, Tarak. Alien predator eyes lock on me. In desperation, I invoke an ancient word. Tarak hurls a metal collar that clatters at my feet. With trembling hands, I seize the collar...
I thought being abducted and experimented on by aliens was the worst things could get. But I was wrong. Because when I tried, and failed, to escape, I promised to protect an alien-human baby. And then we were thrown into a new cage. And my cell-mate? He's big, scarred, brooding... and we're expected to give our capto...
Yu Hua has been stolen from his quiet life in the countryside and tossed into the mess of the palace. He arrives on the eve of the twenty-seventh day of the seventh month, just as the moon turns blood-red and the Emperor of their kingdom is assassinated and proclaimed dead. As the only male in an abandoned cart of wom...