When the brutal Hameji battle fleets conquer his homeworld, young James McCoy runs away from home to rescue his older brother and sister, Ben and Stella. Though the undefeated Hameji are feared throughout all of inhabited space, James will stop at nothing to get his family back. He soon finds a band of interstellar mercenaries who agree to take him in, but what he doesn't know is that Stella has become a concubine to the main Hameji overlord--and Ben has been brainwashed and made an elite shock trooper in the Hameji Army. A 110,000 word novel introducing a new series of epic space opera. WARNING: Contains some adult content including torture, gun violence, rape, and sexual themes. If this were a movie, it would probably be rated PG-13.