*Under Editing* Marinette Dupain-Cheng is a 17 year old. This is the year she finally graduates, the year she turns 18. Like others, like you're supposed to, you receive a sign on your 18th birthday. Like an after-birth birthmark. Everybody gets a certain element. Earth, water, fire, or air. These signs tell people what kind of person you are. Everybody has a mark showing it, on their right arm. But not Marinette. She had nothing.

The Golden Queen, Book 1 When GallenO'Day is hired as a bodyguard to escort a young woman through the woods to the forbidden ruins at Geata Na Chruinn, it seems like an ordinary job-but all too soon, he finds himself fleeing for his life from creatures that seem like escapees from a nightmare-the alien dronon, led by their golden queen. With his best friend, a genetically engineered talking bear named Orick, and his girlfriend Maggie, Gallen soon finds himself tangled in an interstellar war that he never knew existed, racing across a host of worlds, confronted by a future unlike any that he had ever imagined.