Screwed

For generations, the people of Aethra believed they were free.

Then the foreigners arrived.

They came with gifts, technology, and promises of a better future. Nations welcomed them. Leaders trusted them. The world celebrated them.

Only one young woman saw the truth.

Brilliant beyond measure, disciplined to a fault, and gifted with an extraordinary ability to connect knowledge others could never see, she realizes that the visitors are not saviors, they are conquerors. By the time the planet understands the danger, its governments have fallen, its people are being controlled, and freedom is slipping away.

Refusing to surrender, she begins a dangerous quest across the planet in search of others like her.

What she discovers changes everything.

Hidden among ordinary people are women possessing rare forms of intelligence: one can predict human behavior, another can uncover any lie, another holds the memories of forgotten civilizations, and another can decipher codes no machine can break.

Individually, they are remarkable.

Together, they may be the only hope their world has left.

But the captors have ruled countless worlds before. They know how to manipulate fear, divide allies, and destroy resistance from within. As betrayals emerge and impossible choices loom, the women must determine whether intelligence alone can save a planet, or whether true freedom demands a sacrifice none of them are prepared to make.

The world believes it has already been conquered.

The invaders believe victory is inevitable.

They are both wrong.

Because they have yet to face the daughters who refuse to kneel.