From USA Today Bestselling Author Aileen Erin
Maité Martinez has always yearned for more than waitressing in a greasy
diner, especially when most people have left the polluted ruins of Earth
behind for a better life on other planets. It's not just working at the
diner that's making life hard for her. Being a half-human, half-alien
girl has never been trickier. With the corporate government hunting down
the last of her father's alien Auanare race living on Earth, hiding her
growing special abilities has become a full-time job on its own.
Every minute Maité stays on Earth is one minute closer to getting
caught. The stress is almost more than she can bear, and when a fancy
Space Tech officer gets handsy with her at the diner, she reacts without
thinking.
Breaking the officer's nose wasn't her smartest move. Now she's faced
with three years forced labor on the volcano planet, Abbadon. With the
job she's slotted for, it may as well have been a death sentence.
It doesn't take Maité long before she realizes there's more to the
mining on Abbadon than Space Tech has let on. As she makes unlikely
allies, Maité uncovers Space Tech's plot to nuke the Aunare homeworld.
The firepower stored in Abbadon's warehouses is more than enough to do
the job ten times over.
As the clock ticks, Maité knows that if she can't find a way to stop
Space Tech, there will be an interstellar war big enough to end all life
in the universe. There's only one question: Can she stop the total
annihilation of humanity without getting herself killed in the
process?
