Torn

Alina Estrella always thought she would go to college, get married and have a family. Never did she plan to be sold as a slave across the universe with her sister Phi after her mother dies and her father sells them both off like cattle. The daughter of an assassin, Alina isn't your average human girl. She knows how to fight, and is a master of weapons, but will it be enough to save her and Phi? Bought by the General Rikas of the Empire, Alina must learn to survive in a world where feelings are weakness and power can be bought by the highest bidder. Alina once thought the hardest thing would be protecting her sister Phi as slaves, but then enters the Emperor. Both girls are given as gifts to the most powerful man in the universe, Emperor Zodark. In a desperate solution to a rebellion, Zodark does the unexpected and marries his slave girl, Alina. Alina is just a human girl living in a world where aliens with powers and strange gifts. Zodark gifts his new Empress with the powers of the mind, and Alina is no longer helpless. Along the way, she will have to choice between accepting her duties as Empress and perhaps even accept the fact she is falling in love with Zodark. From a human slave to the most powerful woman in the universe, life can't get more complicated. Or, at least, Alina hopes...