ABOUT THE BOOK
Published by: Clean Teen Publishing
Released on: 12/29/15
Series: The Last Orphans #3
Purchase from: Amazon | B&N | Kobo
If he loses her, he’ll lose his will to fight.
Shane and his friends survive the first major attack against the enemy, destroying the alien ships that came to harvest the children of Earth and turn them all into slaves. However, one ship escaped, and the aliens have captured Kelly. Shane will do whatever it takes to save her, but turning his back on his friends could jeopardize the whole mission.
The enemy invades Kelly’s mind, turning her into a slave soldier. She’ll follow their orders, even if it means murdering her friends, including her little sister and Shane. She is helpless, trapped inside her body while it performs heinous tasks under the direction of her new masters, while her sanity and desire to live fade.
Shane returns home to make a rescue attempt, only to find Kelly commanding an army of human slave soldiers, and she’s determined to make him join her ranks. Will Shane save Kelly before she gets to her sister, or will she help the enemy enslave the rest of humanity?
Prologue
Athos didn’t intend any disrespect toward the deceased, and he would avenge them if he found those responsible for the attacks. But the young admiral had yet to realize what the mishap could mean for the surviving ship.
Inherited to the SRS Pegasus, her officers, and her compliment of lower royalty and aristocrats who funded the ship’s operations and profited from her acquisitions was the entire crop of the planet passing beneath them. Athos had been working on a technology that would simplify the harvesting process, but he hadn’t dreamed he might get a chance to field test it so soon.
Hoping his calm demeanor would infect the panicking admiral, Athos stood and nodded toward the image of Earth passing beneath the Pegasus. He walked toward the view screen, and the young man joined him.
“What do you see, Admiral?” General Athos spoke in a quiet voice, his back to the rest of the control room.
“I see chaos,” the admiral replied, his voice quieter though still anxious. “I see devastation and failure. No harvest has ever gone so wrong.”
On an equatorial orbit, the ship passed around the dark side of the planet into the sunlight once again. A column of smoke rose from the narrow strip of land connecting two large continents, flattening out in the atmosphere before being dissipated by the winds. Another recruit ship lay in ruins down there, her crew overrun and slaughtered.
It was an area the humans called Central America, not far from a blast crater caused by his ancestors in the distant past. Athos could make out the shape of the crater’s rim on the land, but most of it was underwater. The explosion had wiped the mega-fauna from the planet to pave the way for hominid production.
“This crop is the finest we’ve ever produced,” Athos continued in a quiet voice.
He clasped his hands behind his back and gazed at the screen with a distant expression, hoping to lead the admiral to realize his plan and at the same time make the young man believe the idea originated in his pathetic and inexperienced mind.
“All seven slave recruit ships were going to make more money and gain more glory off this one species than the last ten harvests combined.”
“Yes, but unless the rebellion is rising again and the rebels somehow got to this planet first, we underestimated the humans.” The admiral glanced over his shoulder at the control room with color rising in his cheeks. He was starting to realize how reprehensible his initial reaction had been.
“Some of the rebels may have survived. If so, they weren’t on all the ships. I’ve fought alongside the soldiers on this vessel and personally selected them to serve with me on this mission. I assure you, there are none more honorable.” Athos raised his brow. “And the humans are the most powerful weapon we’ve ever created.”
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Gorgeous blog tour post Katie. <3 Looks like a great book :D Probably not for me, but a bit curious even so. Thank you for sharing about it :)
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