Lieutenant Commander Ashton ‘Ash’ Haze has always embraced a couple of things in his life: experience and women. However when he awakens with an alien planet, there’s no period for anything other than survival-or therefore he thinks.

Kella Ta’Qui is one of the Turbinta-a guild that discards their genetic identities in favor of what they teach to become: assassins. Kella has been honing this lethal skill set since she was extracted from her house as a kid to teach. Her first mission is to discover and kill whatever was inside about First Awakenings the unusual capsule that got on Tesla Terra, but predator becomes prey when she actually is wounded by her target. Dazed and baffled, she stumbles right into a group who intend to sell her to the best bidder-until a rescuer shows up.

Ash is definitely a troublemaker, and his Navy training ensured that he was able to handle almost anything thrown his way before. However when he enters a city in the middle of the desert and discovers a wounded alien girl, nothing could possess prepared him for how she impacts him. He soon learns that she understands where his fellow staff member may be located, and that knowledge unwittingly thrusts him into the middle of a local civil war. The fight begins, as well as the race is to find the other members of Task Gliese 581g crew before the Legion does.

Can an easygoing Navy pilot and an alien assassin interact to reach the location of one of the other capsules on the cutthroat Turbintan globe, or will Ash come across himself served up to the Legion for the highest variety of credits? Whatever occurs, the war provides begun with the 1st awakening of the resistance-a resistance that Ash unwittingly volunteered to combat for.