The Imprint of Stars

Sunny Augusta is a human in a world where humans are on the brink of extinction.

Twenty years ago an alien invasion threatened to destroy the planet.
Salvation came in the form of benevolent aliens calling themselves the Peace Makers.
Defeating the invaders, they helped the planet rebuild from the ruins by appointing themselves Earth's Protectors and Caretakers.

Ten years later Sunny's parents were killed and she became an orphan.
But, the Peace Makers were no longer the benevolent protectors they claimed to be.

To escape slavery as a ward of the State, Sunny went to live with her grandmother in the November Hills. There she grew up among outcasts and rebels who fled the Peace Maker rule, to live a frontier life on the outskirts of civilization.

Until one stormy night when a new kind of alien crash lands in the November Hills.

A creature who Imprints on the first species it encounters.
Whose first contact on Earth is with Sunny.
A stranger who saves her life, holds the key to ending Peace Maker rule...

... and claims that Sunny Augusta is his mate.