Following an unsuccessful and debilitating experiment by the Navy, Tristan Taylor’s now reclusive and desolate life takes a shocking turn with the arrival of an alien warrior whose ship has crash-landed behind his isolated cottage.
Discovering that his previously failed brain implant can interface with the alien's computers, Tristan resolves to accompany the enchanting Aesia in her quest to return to her people...little knowing what awaits him. And at what price...?
Minara is an ex solider turned bounty hunter earning a living catching human survivors from the Human, Grojan war. She stumbles across a large enemy fleet and is shot down. She crashes on a primitive planet where Minara quickly establishes herself as a bodyguard to a princess of a small kingdom. Unbeknown to her a powerful general from a rival kingdom is a genetically modified human. By chance and political events, they meet and sparks fly.
After surviving the Grojan war unscathed Varna was haunted by the memory of a human who had spared her life, and a mysterious casket she had found in a derelict ship. On the run from bounty hunters for a crime one of her crew committed. Varna becomes embroiled with a secret Grojan faction to overthrow a corrupt and failing Grojan government. Can her link with the human, the casket and the gathering rebellion be reconciled before dark forces within the Grojan government silence her forever?